Chris Dench

Chris Dench

2020 APRA AMCOS Art Music Awards winner

Well, who would have guessed it? After years of being a finalist here and there, a work of mine has finally won an Art Music Award outright: passing bells: day, performed and nominated by the outstanding Brisbane pianist Alex Raineri,…

The Notation Game

A change in my notation occurred in about 1995. Previously I had adopted a semiotically information-rich notation that I thought conveyed a considerable amount of useful information to the perceiver. However, a couple of decades of explanations and performances seemed…

Carl Rosman plays ruins within

Someone recently described Carl Rosman, precisely, as ‘the Compleat Musician’. Clarinetist extraordinaire, conductor, educator, I’ve known Carl for 25 years now, and not only is he is one of my favourite people, but also at the top of the list…

String Quartet (1985/2019)

Those who have visited this site before will have noticed that a new page has appeared dedicated to the nearly-completed study score of my 1985/2019 String Quartet. The version of the score that we have posted is, at this stage,…

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