Music for Clarinet(s)

Clarinet Quartet: Liberation of Mr Norris

Clarinet Quartet 1: A Journey into Monadic Variation

Clarinet Quartet 2: On an old theme; Ode to Ferneyhough

Clarinet Quartet 3: A Dilemma of Gesture

Clarinet Quartet 4: WAPB; Dealing with the impossibility...

A short piece for four clarinets inspired by renaissance music.

Arianna's Dance

Madrigal, a work for clarinet and piano, takes the Dowland song "Can She Excuse My Wrongs" as its starting point for a set of variations. This recording is a live performance by Anna McGregor and Bus Bryant-Greene.

Madrigal

Chris Adams (1979-) is a New Zealand composer and is the Head of Music at The Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School in Christchurch. He was the Mozart Fellow (2010-2011) at the University of Otago and the Auckland Philharmonia’s Composer in Residence (2009). Chris was the inaugural Artist in Residence at the Pah Homestead from July to September, 2010, a position he held again for a further three months in 2011.

Clarinet Quartet 2: On an old theme; Ode to Ferneyhough

Chris Adams Composer