Hammond received a commission from Radio Three, and Narcissus,[7] a setting of poems by George Barker, was performed by Lontano and mezzo-soprano Linda Hirst in April 1981 as part of the Sonorities Festival of Twentieth Century Music.
One of Hammonds most frequently performed pieces, French Blue, was commissioned by the GPA Dublin International Piano Competition.
It was subsequently performed on a tour of the United States by Barry Douglas and Camerata Ireland in Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
His work ... while the sun shines was commissioned by BBC Radio Three for performance in September 2005 and celebrates the music of the great Irish conductor and composer Sir Hamilton Harty (in 1979, Philip Hammond contributed two chapters to a book on Sir Hamilton Harty published by Blackstaff Press).
[9][10] While at the Arts Council, Hammond spent two years seconded to the Northern Ireland government to design and manage an international arts festival in Washington DC to accompany Northern Ireland's role as a featured region in the 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
Hammond composed a series of piano pieces focused on Lorca and written for the Irish pianist Cathal Breslin for his debut recital at the Carnegie Hall, New York, in June 2009.