Chris Dench

1) the effort to return to the cities of the sane (2022) for bass clarinet (12’) 2) in Platonia (2023-4) for bass clarinet and piano (26’) 3) passing bells (2003-20) for piano (50’) One of the things that has always…

It is characteristic of my process that works take a long time to progress from concept to concert, and my piece for harpsichordist Luca Quintavalle that I first mooted back in 2020 is no exception, having taken fully five years…

After three decades of neglect, I have returned to the solo flute idiom. After the original Flute Tetralogy, comprising vier darmstädter aphorismen (1986-89); dé/ployé (1987); sulle scale della Fenice (1986–89); and closing lemma (1987–91), I felt that I had pretty…

The first Iso-étude that I wrote under COVID lockdown was a solo vibraphone piece called Luminous, and last November percussionist Zachary Wilson gave it its second airing in a concert at the University of Maryland. Zachary’s performance has an elegant…

An as yet unremarked aspect of 10 to the power 62 is its provenance in my early experience of jazz. For all of my life I have been an avid record buyer – something that probably seems quaint today, but…