“The Snow Queen works particularly well … one of the BBC’s more distinguished opera for radio commissions.” Tempo
“Ward’s music is direct clear and expressive; players and, I should guess, particularly singers must find his work grateful to perform … Ward’s compositions display, at their best, the stamp of the authentic, the ‘necessary’.” Classical Music
“Ward’s deeply felt response to the texts manifests itself in a thoroughly extrovert way, unflinchingly passionate and heedless of any possible accusations of excess.” Jane Manning on Three Sonnets to Orpheus in her book New Vocal Repertoire, Volume 2
