Here are some of my original works for string quartet, commissioned and performed by the Westbrooke Quartet.

Mijn, voor Mij: II – “Molto Espresso” by Iain Brandram-Adams

Rhythmic industrial/abstract piece for distorted microphone feedback and found sounds. Track 2 from the 1998 CD 'Death Defying' by David Downes

Ironlung

Ironlung (Brutal Truth Cover)

Maud is a four movement string quartet written for the Jade String Quartet in 2015. This recording is of a live performance by the Jade String Quartet in 2017, recorded at the Pah Homestead in Hillsborough, Auckland.

COME into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, Night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
I am here at the gate alone;
And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the roses blown.

For a breeze of morning moves,
And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
On a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
To faint in his light, and to die.

And the soul of the rose went into my blood,
As the music clash’d in the hall;
And long by the garden lake I stood,
For I heard your rivulet fall
From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood,
Our wood, that is dearer than all;

From the meadow your walks have left so sweet
That whenever a March-wind sighs
He sets the jewel-print of your feet
In violets blue as your eyes,
To the woody hollows in which we meet
And the valleys of Paradise.

Extracts from Maud by Alfred Tennyson

Concert 2 at the Pah

I. [from Maud]

Music for Quiet Mass.
Composed performed produced by Christopher Orczy 
May-December 2017
Mustel Harmonium, 1904.

Intercession

Absolution

Confession

Communion

1. Maestoso, Allegretto
2. Allegretto
3. Moderato assai

Performed by Louise Hwang, Emma Wu and Francesca Orchard-Hall in the final round of the New Zealand National Schools Chamber Music Contest in Wellington, August 6 2018. Their performance received the Gold Medal, People's Choice and Best Performance of a NZ Work awards. Recorded by Radio NZ Concert FM.

Trio for two oboes and cor anglais

track from new album, hurdy Gurdy & Pure data.

Go to kerian.bandcamp.com the hear the rest.

07  - hG&Pd

Chaos in the CBD 'Invisible Spectrum' feat. Isaac Aesili

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.

I. [from Maud]

Chris Adams Composer

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