クリス・デンク（Chris Dench、Google翻訳による発声ではクリス・デンチ、1953年 - ）は、イギリスの現代音楽の作曲家。オーストラリア在住。

 略歴 
1953年生まれ。原則的に独学だが、ダルムシュタット講習会に参加し頭角を現す。一時期は奨学金でベルリンとトスカナに住んだが、現在はオーストラリアに移住し、市民権を獲得した。作品はかつてUMPから出版されていたが、近作は公式ウェブサイトとオーストラリア音楽情報センターから
で入手できる。

ブライアン・ファーニホウの影響を強く受け、創作活動を開始する。「フルートソロのためのsulle scale della Fenice」は八分の一音を用いた音列のダイアグラムをフルートソロ一本で渡り歩く難曲である。該当作はperspective of new musicで音源つきで紹介された。その後もピアノ作品やクラリネット作品で、譜面の難解な作品を次々と発表し、「弦楽四重奏曲」はクラーニヒシュタイナー音楽賞を受賞した。

しかし、作風は徐々に軟化し、「バスクラリネットとコントラバスクラリネットのためのsum over histories 」などは、聴覚的にも平易な作品となっている。tzadikからリリースされた近作集は多様な編成が収められてはいるものの、作品は超絶技巧を要求する類のものではない。近年は「ピアノソナタ」などの大作あるいは連作が目立つ。

 作品 

 管楽器 
caught breath of time (flute doubling altoflute) (10′) 
vier darmstädter aphorismen
Venezia (flute) (2′) 
piccolo fragment from Dark Neumes (piccolo) (2′) 
A.R.T.A.U.D. (bassflute) (3′) 
gelb : violett (altoflute) (7′) 
dé/ployé (piccolo) (8′) 
sulle scale della Fenice (flute) (10′) (1986–89)
closing lemma (flute) (10′) (1987–91)
geminy (open-hole altoflute) (18′) 
geminy A & B (open-hole altoflute) (8′ + 8′) 
time (solo bass or basset clarinet) (6′) 
ruins within (clarinet in A) (10′) (1992–94)
the sadness of detail [two versions, one folded, one unfolded] (clarinet) (10′) 
burns (alto saxophone) (6′) 
'e/meth (oboe or soprano saxophone) (10′) 
shards (solo recorder: playing bass, tenor, alto, soprano, sopranino, garklein) (10′) (2011–12) excerpted from seven types of time machine

ピアノ
topologies (12′) 
tilt (8′) 
passing bells: night (12′) 
Piano Sonata (100′) (2015–16)
Phase Portraits
Book One
zero-knowledge protocols (2′) 
helical (3′) 
tenebroso (6′) (1978/2003)
dancing qualia (10′) (1978/ )
tiento de medio registro alto (3′) (1978/2003)
small box of time (8′) (2013/ )
Pas Seul I: reading Takahashi (3.5′) (1979/93)
Pas Seul II: vectorial (3.5′)
Appendix to Book One
Pas Seul III: rushes (piano duet) (6′) (1979/96)
Book Two - [microsonata]
into the wormworks (6′) (1984/95)
esperance (4′) 
E-330 plays (6′) (1991/2003)
Appendix to Book Two
mem(e) (5 mins) (bassflute and piano) [currently under revision] 
Book Three - the heretical bagatelles
the heretical bagatelles
BD & double (4′) 
AG (3′) (2008/12)
KS (2′) (2008/12)
AB 1 (1′) 
Book Four
the heart's algorithms (13′) (1993/99–2002)
ik(s)land[s] fragment (2′) (1997/98)
(the) Barry Jones Dances (5′) 

 オルガン 
compostela/finisterre (large organ) (20′) (2005/06 extended 2009)

 打楽器 
small box of time (marimba) (8′) 

 ギター 
severance (8′) (1988–94)
asymptotic freedom (17′) (1997–99) [Red House edition]
fundamental processes (10-string guitar) (17′) [edited by Stuart Fisher] (2008–16)

 室内楽 
strangeness (string quartet) (25′) [currently withdrawn for revision] 
recueillement (flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass) (12′) [currently withdrawn for revision] 
funk (bass clarinet and untuned percussion) (10′) (1988–89)
'atsiluth/shîn (flute, bass clarinet, and piano) (12′) [currently withdrawn for revision] 
heterotic strings (flute, cor anglais, bass clarinet, violin, and contrabass, all amplified and uncoordinated) (8′) [currently withdrawn for revision] 
from n(ich)t (mezzo-soprano, recorder, guitar) (6′) 
fauxbourdon/tenebroso (cello and piano) [currently withdrawn for revision] (8′) 
Permutation City (percussion duo: playing two marimbas, vibraphone, and two octaves of crotales) (16′) (2005–08)
Blood music (clarinet, seven-string electric guitar, and quarter-tone vibraphone) (13′) 
e(i)ther (violin and piano) (13′) 
an Hypallage (mezzo-soprano, baritone, harp (or piano)) [text: Lawrence Sterne] (3′) 
New work (E flat clarinet & soprano saxophone) (6′) [in preparation] 

 アンサンブル 
symphony for brass (brass ensemble and percussion) (20′) [currently withdrawn for revision] (1982/ )
recueillement (baritone voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola, cello, bass) [text: Baudelaire] (12′) [currently withdrawn for revision] (1986/ )
driftglass (solo percussion and five amplified instruments) (10′) 
planetary allegiances (solo flute and ensemble) (15′) [currently withdrawn for revision] (1992/ )
beyond status geometry (percussion quartet) (20′) 
ik(s)land[s] (mezzo-soprano and flute, clarinet, guitar, percussion, violin, cello) [text: berni m janssen] (20′) (1997–98)
eigenmomenta (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (10′) (2000–01)
light-strung sigils (recorder and flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (15′) (2001–02)
the blinding access of the grace of the flesh (mezzo-soprano and flute, clarinet, guitar, percussion, violin, cello) [text: berni m janssen] (11′) 
Agnî (from Agnî-Prometheus-Lucifer) (sixteen instruments) (10′) (2006– )
flux (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) (16′) 
in Platonia (solo guitar (amplified) and flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, celesta/melodica/anvil, violin, viola, cello, bass) (25′) (2011–12)
crystallisation (baritone and bass voices, and flute/alto/piccolo, oboe/melodica, B flat clarinet/E flat clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello) [text: Arthur Haswell] (10′) 

 音楽劇 
seven types of time machine (soprano, solo recorder, flute, clarinet, two percussion, violin, cello) [text: Arthur Haswell] [incomplete] (50-60′) (2012– )
diurnal (soprano and drone) [text: Arthur Haswell] (8′) excerpted from seven types of time machine
We, a chamber opera (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass voices, and six percussionists) [libretto: Dustine Barnes, after Zamyatin] [in preparation] (80–120′) (2010- )

オーケストラ
Symphony 1 (orchestra) (18′) [currently under re-orchestration] (1977–80)
Symphony 2: énoncé (sixteen instruments) (18′) [currently under revision] (1983–84)
Symphony 3: afterimages (chamber orchestra) (20′) [currently under revision] 
Symphony 4: propriocepts (four voices and large orchestra) (21′) (1994–97)

 ディスコグラフィー 
Etceteraから一枚、tzadikから一枚出ている。