Contributor

Chris Cree Brown

Composer

Born: 1953 Website

Biography Works 128 Recordings 9 Resources 8 Performances 9

Biography

Chris Cree Brown is currently a freelance Composer and Sonic Artist. In 2018, he retired from his position as Associate Professor at the School of Music, University of Canterbury.

His main interests include conventional instrumental composition, electroacoustic and computer music, and inter-media art.

In August 2018, he has been granted the University of Otago Wallace Trust Residency at the Pah homestead in Auckland, and in 2019, he has been invited to teach/assist in teaching Masters students at the musikhochschule in Lubeck, Germany for the northern summer semester.

He has twice been awarded the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, has twice been appointed Composer-in-Schools, has won two prizes in the Wellington Youth Orchestra's Young Composers Competition, and has written a number of film scores. In 1986, he received the CANZ Trust Fund Award and in 2010, he received the CANZ KBB Award for services to New Zealand Music.

Memories Apart for chamber ensemble (2002), Icescape for orchestra (2003), Remote Presence for piano (2007) and the Viola Concerto (2015) were finalist compositions in the Sounz Contemporary Music Awards, and in 2010 he won the award with Inner Bellow, for Clarinet and Fixed Media.

Along with Icescape for orchestra, is an electro-acoustic work, Under Erebus that were both a result of a trip to Antarctica under the Artists to Antarctica programme run under the auspices of Antarctic New Zealand (and with the assistance of Creative New Zealand).

He has a strong interest in Aeolian harps and in 2002 exhibited a design in the Christchurch Botanical gardens as part of the Art and Industry Scape Biennale. Recordings of Aeolian Harps sounds feature in many of his works.

He has attended, presented work and represented New Zealand in many festivals and conferences, including the International Computer Music Association (Aarhus 1994), and the International Society for Contemporary Music (Slovenia, 2015), and .the Asian Composers League (Taiwan 2015).

His work has been performed in many countries, including Australia, England, Finland, Hungary, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, and the United States of America.

Composed (128)

'Cello

electroacoustic

8kms

installation with electroacoustic music

A Black Painting

electroacoustic

A Frame of Mind

electroacoustic

A Gallery of Cats

for tape, 12m

A Piece

for piano

A Primitive Pathos (2)

for double bass

A Video/performance Work

electroacoustic

Aeolian Harp

design for a sculpture

Aeolian Harp Sounds

electroacoustic, 7m

Aeolian Harps

exhibition

Airborne

electroacoustic

Alphabet

music theatre for school group

Alphabet

music theatre for choir (22 voices), two musicians and soloist, 20m

An Island Eaten By Rats

electroacoustic

Apnoea

electroacoustic

Aramoana

installation with electroacoustic music

Bars

electroacoustic

Black and White

for orchestra and tape, 14m

Blue for a Girl

electroacoustic

Boulder Bank

performance work, 5h

Branches from the Wishing Tree

electroacoustic

Cantankostrepulance

for solo violin, 2m

Celestial Bodies

for orchestra, electroacoustic sound and images, 25m

Cellocution

sound installation, 10m

Confrontations

electroacoustic

Construction, Connundrum, Con Moto

music theatre for 5 musicians

Crayfish Coast

electroacoustic

Crystallography

electroacoustic

Dance I

electroacoustic, 7m

Deep Music

for contrabassoon, tuba, double bass, piano, cymbal and conductor

Doldrums

for amplified cello, 7m

Double Violin Concerto

13m

Dream Compass

for chamber ensemble, 11m

Dream Lines

for viola and piano

Dry Rain

for flugelhorn and piano, 6m

Duo for Violin and Cello

for violin and cello

Duo for Violin and Viola

for violin and viola, 8m

El Nino

for piano, 5m

Epitaph on a Tyrant

for soprano and choir

Exercise I

for tape

Faultlines

for solo violin

Forgotten Memories

for viola and orchestra, 10m

Gallipoli Fragments

for piano trio, electroacoustic sounds and images, 30m

Hidden Bellow

for flute, 2 saxophones and piano

Hymn

for unaccompanied SATB, 3m

Icescape

for orchestra, 8m

In Motion

electroacoustic

In Real Time

performance work

In Sympathy

music-theatre-sculpture for trumpet, 7m

In Watermelon Days

for orchestra, 11m

Inner Bellow

for clarinet and tape

Inner Bellow arr. by Disasteradio & Jim Langabeer

Iron Pebbles and Gold Dust

electroacoustic, 12m

Islands Apart

electroacoustic

Jurassic pond

for piano

Juxtapocluster

for flute, clarinet, violin, piano and harpsichord

Kai

electroacoustic

Kite Flying at Doctor's Point

for bass recorder

La Nina

for piano

Linda

electroacoustic

Memories Apart

for chamber ensemble, 12m

Munted

for large chamber ensemble

Music for a Birth

electroacoustic

Music for a Wedding I

electroacoustic

Music for a Wedding II

electroacoustic

Music for Limbs

electroacoustic

Night Shadows

for flute and viola, 7m

No Ordinary Sun

electroacoustic

On Vision

electroacoustic

Open Country

electroacoustic

Oxford Theme

for voice and piano, 5m

Palimpsest (after Marais)

for violin and piano

Palimpsest (after Marais)

for flute and piano

Phoenix

for orchestra and fixed media

Piano Piece '86

for piano

Piece

for school orchestra

Piece

for string orchestra and vibraphone

Piece

for piano, prepared tape and live electronics

Piece for Anzart

performance sculpture, 1h

Piece for Eighteen Strings

for string orchestra

Piece for Flute and Guitar

for flute and guitar

Piece for Piano and String Quartet

for piano and string quartet

Piece for Solo Flute

for flute, 5m

Piece for Viola and Rubbish Tin

for viola and rubbish tin

Pilgrimage to Gallipoli

radiophonic work, 1h 25m

Pinball

music theatre for solo voice, 8m

Remote Presence

for piano

Seasonal Rounds

for school voices, 2m

Sleep

for clarinet, violin, 2 violas, double bass and piano accordion

Sound Barrel

for euphonium and fixed media electronics

Sound Cylinders

for flute and tape, 9m

Sound to go with a Sculpture by Mark MacIntyre

for tape

Soundlines

for orchestra

Soundscape, for Dennis O'Connor Exhibition

electroacoustic

Stalactite

for two guitars

Stalagmite Music

for guitar

Still Life

for harp and guitar

Still Reverie

for flute and organ

Street

for tape

Study I

for tape

Study II

for tape

Study III

for tape

Sun Festival Sculpture

sound installation

The Clothesline

for tape

The Evening Post

music theatre for 10 soloists and (150+) choir

The Jade Tendril

electroacoustic

The neap tides

for orchestra

The Solitude of the Ice

for flute, recorder and cello

The Triumvirate

for violin, cello and piano

The Watertable

for flute and tape, 9m

Three Pieces for Piano

for solo piano, 15m

Three Pieces for String Quartet

for string quartet, 13m

Towards a Composition

for classroom instruments

Transcendence

electroacoustic, 36m

Tuning the Harp

for chamber octet

Two Maui Legends

music drama for Intermediate school children

Two Pieces for Solo Cello

for cello, 10m

Under Erebus

electroacoustic, 15m

Viola Concerto

for viola and orchestra, 27m

Waiting for Godot

for 2 horns, piano and string orchestra

Walk New Zealand

electroacoustic

We need the System

for four percussionists

Wild Iron

for school choir and corrugated iron

Willow Dance

electroacoustic

Windscape

electroacoustic

Y2K Pacemaker

for orchestra, 3m

Zephyr

for solo piano, 21m

Recordings (9)

Alexander Ivashkin: Under the Southern Cross - works for cello - CD

Audio/visual

Chris Cree Brown: Pilgrimage to Gallipoli — CD

Audio/visual

Contemporary Canterbury - CD

Audio/visual

Fanfares for a New Millennium - CD

Audio/visual

New Zealand Sonic Art 2000 - CD

Audio/visual

New Zealand Sonic Art Vol II - CD

Audio/visual

New Zealand Sonic Art Vol. III - CD

Audio/visual

Passing: Asia Pacific Festival 2007 - CD

Audio/visual

Taurangi: New Zealand Music for flute and piano - CD

Audio/visual

Resources (8)

Alex Taylor reviews Karlheinz Company "Composing Now" concert - WEBSITE

Review

Artist Prepare: Chris Cree Brown

Documentary

Canzona | 2003, Vol. 24, No. 45 - JOURNAL

Commentary or analysis

Kenneth Young introduces 'Forgotten Memories' by Chris Cree Brown - AUDIO

Commentary or analysis

Music in New Zealand | Summer 1991-92, No. 15 - JOURNAL

Commentary or analysis

On Disk: Composers - DVD

Education resource

Peter Mechen reviews SMP Ensemble's 'Sound Barrel' concert

Review

William Dart reviews Karlheinz Company's concert 'Ritual Auras' - WEBSITE

Review