Christopher Best - composer

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Christopher Best is a freelance composer based in the Southwest of England, writing mostly concert, stage and acousmatic music. Commissioning groups have included the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fisarchi Ensemble of Florence, Scottish Dance Theatre, Jamaican National Dance, Emilyn Claid & Co. 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.

In making new work, Chris places particular emphasis on collaborating with performers, and is grateful for having had the opportunity to do so with such distinguished musicians as accordionist Miloš Milivojević, trumpeter Alan Thomas, cellist Rohan de Saram, flautist William Sleath, pianists Tim Carey, Raymond Clarke and Julian Hellaby, harpist Ruth Wall, guitarist Matthew Marshall and organists Simon Hogan and Daniel Moult. His music has received widespread critical acclaim and been performed and broadcast internationally.

Since 2010 Chris has held a senior lectureship at Falmouth University, having formerly been Reader in music composition at Dartington College of Arts in Devon. He has taught extensively throughout the UK and abroad, and co-directed residential music and dance exchanges in Devon, Manchester, London and Madrid.

For full details of all available compositions, please refer to the Works page.