your music is just amazing.
you should try with street spirit and high and dry.
i'm radiohead's biggest fan ever, and i feel so proud that someone like you is playing their music in such a wonderfull way.
i was just wondering if you're planning a tour through latin america...
here in colombia are thousands of people who loves your music and it would be great if you come here.
we have a beautiful culture and we are just waiting for you.
it's such a shame that radiohead has never considered to come here...
thank you very much for your concern.
true love waits...i'll wait for radiohead to come down here...'till i die.
eddie-
i would love to come to columbia. i've never been through latin america. i will hope to be there soon.
thank you for your kind words.
best wishes,
christopher
I think your tributes to Radiohead are really splendid:) And I adore your cover of Mother by Tori Amos. Would you ever consider of doing a similar tribute concert of Tori's music? I have long wanted to hear her music interpreted by capable pianists like yourself!
~John
john-
although i listen to tori a lot, i haven't had the compulsion to do any more of her songs just now; i think she does pretty well without any help from me, although i could see 'not the red baron' as a strong possibility sometime.
i must say i did learn more about playing radiohead on the piano from listening to tori play than i would ever have imagined i would. she has such a committed (without sounding heavy) touch on the piano, and it led me to mend more weight to my own touch in approaching rock music in general. i think tori's great, and undoubtedly the most gifted pianist in all the pop world.
best wishes,
chris
Excelentes las versiones, con la influencia de grupos como este no es extraño que otros artistas se interesen en trabajar con este material. Congratulations from CHILE.
Yes, "going Modern" piano players are heard to find, and you turn the genious that is radioheads progressive sound, and amazing musician ship into something equaly amazing, and absolutly beautiful! amazing, wonderfl work my friend.
Hello Christopher!
I am from Argentina and though it´s been only 2 weeks since the first time I listened to your radiohead covers I have become a fan of yours already.I would like to ask you if you had the opportunity to play with radiohead or Elliot smith?Thanks.
rodrigo
rodrigo-
i never had the pleasure of meeting elliott smith during his all-too-short lifetime.
although i have met and conversed once with thom yorke and colin greenwood of radiohead, i have never had the opportunity of playing with them.
good idea, though, yes?
thanks for your very kind note.
best wishes,
christopher
I am very grateful for your answer, and of course I agree with you on the idea of Christopher O´riley playing with Thom and friends,that would be awesome!
In other matter of facts, I would like to ask you for some advise or recommendation you could give to a beginner of the piano like me.
best wishes and thanks for the music!
rodrigo
You should consider playing at Bonnaroo. I am sure you have heard of it. The festival already features an eclectic line up of all different types of music. I think your style of classical piano would be an interesting and well recieved addition to the weekend. I don't know how to go about getting involved, but I think it would be an interesting expirence for not only the audience but for you as well. Rock festival mixed with classical piano? I'm there.
brenden-
ya, i'm with you there, totally.
i think inquiries were made, but bonarroo passed on me, sorry to say.
it would be great to go. i'd love to. i heard the radiohead show was splendid.
someday perhaps.
best,
chris
Hi! Your classical versions of Radiohead are really splendid...
I play piano since just a month!... I have a Yamaha Disklavier (which can play by himself), and as I'm not yet capable to play like you (for just one or two centuries...), is it possible to find "midi" versions of your songs so that you'll play at my home!!, of course I would pay for this...if it's possible! Thanks to exist, please excuse my poor english (I'm french)
Vince
vince-
congratulations on your learning to play the piano. i hope it gives you many hours of great joy.
i think your idea of having midi versions of my arrangements is an interesting one. unfortunately, i don't have them available. you'll just have to play them on your cd player, or keep practicing hard so that you can play them yourself someday.
i wish you the best.
chris
Hi!
Thanks for your quick answer.I promise i'll work hardly, but for the moment, i give you an idea because you are really smart and look cool!
I don't know if you can play with Yamaha(because of copyright or not), but may be they want you to make a Disklavier album (an official album which make play the piano by himself) these albums are sold about 45$, I don't know how much you could win with this, but it may be very interesting for Disklavier owners and all restaurants who own one, it allows the piano to "replay" it exactly how you play it, it can reproduce the love you feel -and make feel- when you play, in the whole world...Will you consider it? And i'll be your first buyer!!!
Regards, Vince
vince-
i remember once the disklavier people were in touch about me doing something like that, but i'm more of a steinway man, myself, and so i balked at the opportunty. maybe i'll reconsider, ifit would make you happy. i'll look into it.
best,
chris
dude your amazing. hearing your cover of "airbag" for the 1st time was sucha tearjerker. im a guitarist/pianist and its just so inspiring to hear a musician at his fullest, or not not ee fullest yet, rather. thank you.
thank YOU.
i appreciate your coming by and saying hey.
take care, sean.
best,
chris
me enamore con la musica...
es muy hermosa, realmente no hay palabras para describir la sensacion hay dentro de mi...
como a mi me gusta mucho radiohead, oir sus canciones en piano...
I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your music. I have played classical piano for ten years now, and I love playing contemporary music like radiohead, fiona apple etc. but i have never been much of a singer, so i started arranging my favorite songs so that i could play them fully by myself. i'm in the middle of trying to arrange a song by the cure. but anyway, to find a musician like you who does it so beautifully is such an inspiration! not to mention that radiohead and elliot smith are my favorite band and musician. I am about to order your sheet music and i can't wait for it to come. I've been trying to find some online to play while i wait but i can't get a hold of any, i guess i'll just have to be patient until it arrives...
as a senior in high school, im curious where you went to college. i was also wondering what your favorite classical pieces or composers were, since you have such good taste in contemporary music. thank you for the music, i hope i get to see you play one day.
take care,
kate
kate-
which cure song are you trying to arrange? i've always wanted to play somethings by them, but i have always been discouraged by robert smith's particular vocal stylings. he keeps falling away from notes, never really hitting them squarely, just glancing off them and falling away. i love his singing, don't get me wrong, i'm just wondering whether you're having the same problems with him.
i went for my undergraduate and graduate studies, to the new england conservatory of music in boston. it's one of the few school in the country to offer a wide range of serious musical training. i chose it initially because i was not only studying classical piano all my life, but was an active professional jazz musician in high school and had my own rock band in junior high, so i thought the conservatory would be a good atmosphere and very nurturing of all of my various interests. as it turned out, i felt i could have been able to pursue anything i wanted there, but i immediately decided to follow my classical studies exclusively, cutting out the jazz entirely. it's only these many years later that i've picked up where i left off, playing all kinds of music that i never stopped listening to.
i think that's the most important thing, to be open to new musical ideas, and to have the courage (and the time, which is the hard thing) to follow your passions where they take you. when i was at conservatory, i loved ravel, beethoven, chopin, rachmaninoff schumann and stravinsky. but the great thing about really great music is that you can find your preference changing over the years. who would have known 20 years ago that my favourite composer now would be shostakovich? I wasn't at all interested in him when i was younger; now he's my absolute favourite.
i wish you the best of luck, and i hope you enjoy playing my arrangements when they come. please feel free to write to me with any questions as may arrise as you look at them on the page.
cheers,
chris
Thank you for providing my mind with yet another time consuming activity, the understanding of music. My original fascination with Radiohead was wrapping my mind around their albums. Fighting through the difficulty I found in understanding their compositions. Thanks to you I am able to begin the process again. I sincerely hope you continue to be fascinated with Radiohead and continue to create such wonderful music. Your music has been constantly on my playlist since it's release. Thank you.
kyle-
so glad you're enjoying the music. i think radiohead are great. i can't wait for the next album. it ought to be fantastic.
thanks for your kind words.
best wishes,
christopher
Hello... I have been completely absorbed in the emotional merry-go round of your interpretations of radiohead... i have been a long time radiohead fan.. AND a longgg time piano player. I have been playing classical piano since i was five years old/ now currently playing George Gershwin's 3 Preludes and just starting 2 of Aaron Copelands Piano Blues. I think some of the most complex music/understanding comes from radiohead. There is no song that pulls at your heart like street spirit (fade out). They are the reason i went out and bought a synthesizer a year ago... it was a yamaha v50..
Me encanta la forma en la que toca el piano, yo tambien toco el piano, y la verdad, me gusto escuchar las canciones de radiohead, que es mi grupo favorito, Me agrado bastante descubrir, que sus canciones van mas alla de la voz de thom, o de la interpretacion de todos ellos.
:)
saludos desde Bolivia
I have listened to "Kid A" between 3,000 and 5,000 times since it's release in 2000. It has such a ridiculous lock on me that I'm not sure I can accurately describe how I feel about it. Your interpretations of the two tracks from Kid A are without flaw. My only wish was that you did more from Kid A.
Your songs will play at my wedding, as they almost transcend what I consider to be a perfect CD. I just wanted to thank you for the incredible effort you have made in making these two CD's transcribing my favorite music.
If you ever get time, please consider transcribing "How to disappear completely". It's Thom's favorite song, and one of mine (along side the rest of Kid A).
I'll be driving 8 hours come September to see you in Newport News. I'll probably be in tears (of joy) the second you start playing, can't wait.
Great stuff Chris!
I enjoy classical music as well as Radiohead, and you've manage to merge them in a magical way.
Excellent job!
Hope we can hear you live sometime here in Argentina.
agustin-
i would dearly love to come to argentina. i have never been there, to visit or to play, but i have loved the music of argentina and have learned it as best i can under the calm tutelage of my tango teacher, the great pianist formerly with astor piazzolla's new tango quintet, pablo ziegler.
i will come there at the earliest opportunity.
thank you for listening.
best wishes,
christopher
go home
your music is just amazing.
you should try with street spirit and high and dry.
i'm radiohead's biggest fan ever, and i feel so proud that someone like you is playing their music in such a wonderfull way.
Posted by: eddie | May 05, 2006 at 07:36 PM
i was just wondering if you're planning a tour through latin america...
here in colombia are thousands of people who loves your music and it would be great if you come here.
we have a beautiful culture and we are just waiting for you.
it's such a shame that radiohead has never considered to come here...
thank you very much for your concern.
true love waits...i'll wait for radiohead to come down here...'till i die.
eddie-
i would love to come to columbia. i've never been through latin america. i will hope to be there soon.
thank you for your kind words.
best wishes,
christopher
Posted by: eddie-edinson jimenez | May 05, 2006 at 07:50 PM
Hello Christopher,
I think your tributes to Radiohead are really splendid:) And I adore your cover of Mother by Tori Amos. Would you ever consider of doing a similar tribute concert of Tori's music? I have long wanted to hear her music interpreted by capable pianists like yourself!
~John
john-
although i listen to tori a lot, i haven't had the compulsion to do any more of her songs just now; i think she does pretty well without any help from me, although i could see 'not the red baron' as a strong possibility sometime.
i must say i did learn more about playing radiohead on the piano from listening to tori play than i would ever have imagined i would. she has such a committed (without sounding heavy) touch on the piano, and it led me to mend more weight to my own touch in approaching rock music in general. i think tori's great, and undoubtedly the most gifted pianist in all the pop world.
best wishes,
chris
Posted by: lotus | May 23, 2006 at 12:38 PM
HOLASS!!!! ESTAN SUPER BUENOSLOS TEMAS DE RADIOHEADD>!!!!SE PASARONNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
FROM CHILEEEEE
gracias!!!
cheers,
chris
Posted by: SEBASTIANNN | May 23, 2006 at 04:35 PM
WHATSSS!!!! OK TRUE LOVE WAITSSSSS!!IS GENIAL SONGGGGGG
true (?!)
cheers,
chris
Posted by: ALEXANDER@YAHOO.COM | May 24, 2006 at 11:32 AM
I play piano too. I've been following your music since a long time.
You got a lot of listeners here in latin america ;)
good modern-piano players are hard to find.
keep playing!!
greetings from chile (is not a food...is a country)
of oourse.
i wish i would play in chile someday.
thank you.
Posted by: christian | May 25, 2006 at 05:41 PM
Great, excelent playing, this demos will go right to my music collection.
Greeting from Chile.
Posted by: Rodolfo | May 26, 2006 at 07:11 PM
I heard that some guy was coming to the Montreal Jazz Fest to play some radiohead songs and randomly found your website by ateaseweb.com.
Your music sounds great and I will try to attend to one of your concerts when you'll be in town.
Thanks!
Posted by: Antoine Bernier | June 04, 2006 at 04:59 PM
Excelentes las versiones, con la influencia de grupos como este no es extraño que otros artistas se interesen en trabajar con este material. Congratulations from CHILE.
gracias, amigo.
Posted by: MONO | June 23, 2006 at 08:22 AM
Yes, "going Modern" piano players are heard to find, and you turn the genious that is radioheads progressive sound, and amazing musician ship into something equaly amazing, and absolutly beautiful! amazing, wonderfl work my friend.
thanks, asher.
Posted by: Asher | June 28, 2006 at 01:40 PM
COME TO LONDON!
OK!
thanks!
cheers,
chris
Posted by: Bob | July 05, 2006 at 12:51 PM
Hello Christopher!
I am from Argentina and though it´s been only 2 weeks since the first time I listened to your radiohead covers I have become a fan of yours already.I would like to ask you if you had the opportunity to play with radiohead or Elliot smith?Thanks.
rodrigo
rodrigo-
i never had the pleasure of meeting elliott smith during his all-too-short lifetime.
although i have met and conversed once with thom yorke and colin greenwood of radiohead, i have never had the opportunity of playing with them.
good idea, though, yes?
thanks for your very kind note.
best wishes,
christopher
Posted by: Rodrigo | July 13, 2006 at 11:49 AM
I am very grateful for your answer, and of course I agree with you on the idea of Christopher O´riley playing with Thom and friends,that would be awesome!
In other matter of facts, I would like to ask you for some advise or recommendation you could give to a beginner of the piano like me.
best wishes and thanks for the music!
rodrigo
Posted by: Rodrigo | July 14, 2006 at 08:41 AM
You should consider playing at Bonnaroo. I am sure you have heard of it. The festival already features an eclectic line up of all different types of music. I think your style of classical piano would be an interesting and well recieved addition to the weekend. I don't know how to go about getting involved, but I think it would be an interesting expirence for not only the audience but for you as well. Rock festival mixed with classical piano? I'm there.
brenden-
ya, i'm with you there, totally.
i think inquiries were made, but bonarroo passed on me, sorry to say.
it would be great to go. i'd love to. i heard the radiohead show was splendid.
someday perhaps.
best,
chris
Posted by: brenden | July 17, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Hi! Your classical versions of Radiohead are really splendid...
I play piano since just a month!... I have a Yamaha Disklavier (which can play by himself), and as I'm not yet capable to play like you (for just one or two centuries...), is it possible to find "midi" versions of your songs so that you'll play at my home!!, of course I would pay for this...if it's possible! Thanks to exist, please excuse my poor english (I'm french)
Vince
vince-
congratulations on your learning to play the piano. i hope it gives you many hours of great joy.
i think your idea of having midi versions of my arrangements is an interesting one. unfortunately, i don't have them available. you'll just have to play them on your cd player, or keep practicing hard so that you can play them yourself someday.
i wish you the best.
chris
Posted by: Vince | August 03, 2006 at 03:42 PM
Hi!
Thanks for your quick answer.I promise i'll work hardly, but for the moment, i give you an idea because you are really smart and look cool!
I don't know if you can play with Yamaha(because of copyright or not), but may be they want you to make a Disklavier album (an official album which make play the piano by himself) these albums are sold about 45$, I don't know how much you could win with this, but it may be very interesting for Disklavier owners and all restaurants who own one, it allows the piano to "replay" it exactly how you play it, it can reproduce the love you feel -and make feel- when you play, in the whole world...Will you consider it? And i'll be your first buyer!!!
Regards, Vince
vince-
i remember once the disklavier people were in touch about me doing something like that, but i'm more of a steinway man, myself, and so i balked at the opportunty. maybe i'll reconsider, ifit would make you happy. i'll look into it.
best,
chris
Posted by: Vince Curie | August 07, 2006 at 03:38 PM
dude your amazing. hearing your cover of "airbag" for the 1st time was sucha tearjerker. im a guitarist/pianist and its just so inspiring to hear a musician at his fullest, or not not ee fullest yet, rather. thank you.
thank YOU.
i appreciate your coming by and saying hey.
take care, sean.
best,
chris
Posted by: Sean | September 08, 2006 at 07:32 PM
Buenísimos...
very very good!!
me enamore con la musica...
es muy hermosa, realmente no hay palabras para describir la sensacion hay dentro de mi...
como a mi me gusta mucho radiohead, oir sus canciones en piano...
yo soy de chile
suerte...luck
Posted by: Geraldine | October 11, 2006 at 07:41 PM
I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love your music. I have played classical piano for ten years now, and I love playing contemporary music like radiohead, fiona apple etc. but i have never been much of a singer, so i started arranging my favorite songs so that i could play them fully by myself. i'm in the middle of trying to arrange a song by the cure. but anyway, to find a musician like you who does it so beautifully is such an inspiration! not to mention that radiohead and elliot smith are my favorite band and musician. I am about to order your sheet music and i can't wait for it to come. I've been trying to find some online to play while i wait but i can't get a hold of any, i guess i'll just have to be patient until it arrives...
as a senior in high school, im curious where you went to college. i was also wondering what your favorite classical pieces or composers were, since you have such good taste in contemporary music. thank you for the music, i hope i get to see you play one day.
take care,
kate
kate-
which cure song are you trying to arrange? i've always wanted to play somethings by them, but i have always been discouraged by robert smith's particular vocal stylings. he keeps falling away from notes, never really hitting them squarely, just glancing off them and falling away. i love his singing, don't get me wrong, i'm just wondering whether you're having the same problems with him.
i went for my undergraduate and graduate studies, to the new england conservatory of music in boston. it's one of the few school in the country to offer a wide range of serious musical training. i chose it initially because i was not only studying classical piano all my life, but was an active professional jazz musician in high school and had my own rock band in junior high, so i thought the conservatory would be a good atmosphere and very nurturing of all of my various interests. as it turned out, i felt i could have been able to pursue anything i wanted there, but i immediately decided to follow my classical studies exclusively, cutting out the jazz entirely. it's only these many years later that i've picked up where i left off, playing all kinds of music that i never stopped listening to.
i think that's the most important thing, to be open to new musical ideas, and to have the courage (and the time, which is the hard thing) to follow your passions where they take you. when i was at conservatory, i loved ravel, beethoven, chopin, rachmaninoff schumann and stravinsky. but the great thing about really great music is that you can find your preference changing over the years. who would have known 20 years ago that my favourite composer now would be shostakovich? I wasn't at all interested in him when i was younger; now he's my absolute favourite.
i wish you the best of luck, and i hope you enjoy playing my arrangements when they come. please feel free to write to me with any questions as may arrise as you look at them on the page.
cheers,
chris
Posted by: Kate | November 04, 2006 at 10:05 AM
Thank you for providing my mind with yet another time consuming activity, the understanding of music. My original fascination with Radiohead was wrapping my mind around their albums. Fighting through the difficulty I found in understanding their compositions. Thanks to you I am able to begin the process again. I sincerely hope you continue to be fascinated with Radiohead and continue to create such wonderful music. Your music has been constantly on my playlist since it's release. Thank you.
kyle-
so glad you're enjoying the music. i think radiohead are great. i can't wait for the next album. it ought to be fantastic.
thanks for your kind words.
best wishes,
christopher
Posted by: Kyle | November 21, 2006 at 08:32 AM
Hello... I have been completely absorbed in the emotional merry-go round of your interpretations of radiohead... i have been a long time radiohead fan.. AND a longgg time piano player. I have been playing classical piano since i was five years old/ now currently playing George Gershwin's 3 Preludes and just starting 2 of Aaron Copelands Piano Blues. I think some of the most complex music/understanding comes from radiohead. There is no song that pulls at your heart like street spirit (fade out). They are the reason i went out and bought a synthesizer a year ago... it was a yamaha v50..
Posted by: Kevin | December 31, 2006 at 10:58 AM
Me encanta la forma en la que toca el piano, yo tambien toco el piano, y la verdad, me gusto escuchar las canciones de radiohead, que es mi grupo favorito, Me agrado bastante descubrir, que sus canciones van mas alla de la voz de thom, o de la interpretacion de todos ellos.
:)
saludos desde Bolivia
gracias!
Posted by: vanessa | March 02, 2007 at 01:37 PM
Dear Chris: Your music is awesome. Thanks!
thanks, mario!
Posted by: Mario | March 11, 2007 at 09:02 AM
Sir,
I have listened to "Kid A" between 3,000 and 5,000 times since it's release in 2000. It has such a ridiculous lock on me that I'm not sure I can accurately describe how I feel about it. Your interpretations of the two tracks from Kid A are without flaw. My only wish was that you did more from Kid A.
Your songs will play at my wedding, as they almost transcend what I consider to be a perfect CD. I just wanted to thank you for the incredible effort you have made in making these two CD's transcribing my favorite music.
If you ever get time, please consider transcribing "How to disappear completely". It's Thom's favorite song, and one of mine (along side the rest of Kid A).
I'll be driving 8 hours come September to see you in Newport News. I'll probably be in tears (of joy) the second you start playing, can't wait.
Thank you ever so much...
-Ryan Dietrich
Posted by: Ryan Dietrich | April 17, 2007 at 07:26 PM
Great stuff Chris!
I enjoy classical music as well as Radiohead, and you've manage to merge them in a magical way.
Excellent job!
Hope we can hear you live sometime here in Argentina.
agustin-
i would dearly love to come to argentina. i have never been there, to visit or to play, but i have loved the music of argentina and have learned it as best i can under the calm tutelage of my tango teacher, the great pianist formerly with astor piazzolla's new tango quintet, pablo ziegler.
i will come there at the earliest opportunity.
thank you for listening.
best wishes,
christopher
Posted by: Agustin | July 08, 2007 at 11:35 AM