Christopher Best

Specialism:

Composition

Location:

Helston
United Kingdom TR12

Contact:

If you would like to discuss a project or request further information, scores, parts or recordings of my work please visit my website at www.chrisbestmusic.com and click on the CONTACT tab.

Additional Info:

Christopher Best is a composer specialising in concert, stage and acousmatic music. Commissioning groups have included the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fisarchi Ensemble of Florence, Scottish Dance Theatre, Emilyn Claid & Co., Jamaican National Dance and Bimba Dance Theatre. Works have also been written for ensembles such as Aquarius, Jane's Minstrels, Kokoro, the choir of Selwyn College Cambridge and Onyx Brass.

He places particular emphasis on collaboration and has worked with such distinguished artists as pianists Michael Finnissy and Ian Pace, dancer-choreographers Emilyn Claid, Kenneth Tharp, Janet Smith, Gill Clarke and Sarah Whatley, accordionist Miloš Milivojević, trumpeter Alan Thomas, cellist Rohan de Saram, guitarists Aleksandra Sapok and Matthew Marshall, organists Simon Hogan and Daniel Hyde, harpist Ruth Wall and flautist William Sleath. Chris's music has received widespread critical acclaim and been performed and broadcast internationally.

Recent output includes 'Lakewood' for solo guitar; 'Missa Mensura', a setting of the Latin mass for chorus and chamber ensemble; the acousmatic works 'Once It Is Over' and 'Worlds I-V'; 'Hawaiki - Six Conceptions' for chorus and orchestra; 'Clarion Song' for trumpet and organ; 'Odes and Episodes' and 'Echoes of a Lost Music', both for electric guitar; and 'Scending' for flutes and accordion.

Chris has been a senior lecturer at Falmouth University, Dartington College of Arts and Coventry University. As a freelance musician, he has taught extensively throughout the UK and abroad, and co-directed residential music and dance exchanges in Devon, Manchester, London and Madrid.

Specialisms

Contemporary Music, Arranging, Commissions, Contemporary Classical

Why not...

Register for free at Musicians.Directory.

Registration is completely free and allows you to create an informative, searchable accompanist profile.

It takes less than a minute to create your profile. Why not give it a try?