“...the work confirms Currie’s status as an athlete and a star, as well as an outstanding musician”
- Guardian

 

“Currie is riveting to watch as well as hear”
- Daily Telegraph

 

 

Colin Currie
Hailed as “the world’s finest and most daring percussionist” (Spectator), Colin Currie is a solo and chamber artist at the peak of his powers. Championing new music at the highest level, Currie is the soloist of choice for many of today’s foremost composers and he performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Colin founded the Colin Currie Group in 2006 to perform the music of Steve Reich.

 

 

A dynamic and adventurous soloist, Currie’s commitment to commissioning and creating new music was recognised in 2015 by the Royal Philharmonic Society who awarded him the Instrumentalist Award. From his earliest years, Currie forged a pioneering path in creating new music for percussion, winning the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2000 and receiving a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005.

 

Currie has premiered works by composers such as Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, HK Gruber, James MacMillan, Anna Clyne, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jennifer Higdon, Kalevi Aho, Rolf Wallin, Kurt Schwertsik, Alexander Goehr, Andrew Norman, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Julia Wolfe and Nico Muhly. Looking ahead, in the coming seasons, Currie will premiere new works by Andy Akiho, Helen Grime and Simon Holt.

 

 

Currie’s 2017/18 season is marked by a number of other premieres including a new work for piano and percussion by Sir Harrison Birtwistle with Nicolas Hodges at the Library of Congress and London’s Southbank Centre. Currie also premiered new works by Brett Dean and Joe Duddell with Håkan Hardenberger at Malmo Chamber Festival in September and Aldeburgh Music in November 2017, and a new work for percussion and electronics by Dave Maric with the Scottish Ensemble.

 

 

Other highlights of 2017/18 include the Scandinavian premiere of HK Gruber’s Into the open… with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, conducted by HK Gruber, and a series of solo recitals including The Schubert Club, Budapest, Lawrence University and at Sir James MacMillan’s The Cumnock Tryst. Currie’s orchestral engagements include Houston Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Het Gelders Orkest, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Brno Contemporary Orchestra.

 

 

Currie’s dynamic ensemble the Colin Currie Group was formed in 2006 to celebrate the music of Steve Reich and made its five-star debut at the BBC Proms. Since then, with Reich’s personal endorsement, Currie and his ensemble have taken on the role of ambassadors of Drumming, which they have performed at many venues and festivals internationally.

 

Highlights of the 2017/18 season include the release of the group’s debut recording of Drumming and performances at King’s Place and Saffron Hall.

 

Program
Joseph Pereira - Mallet Quartet
Iannis Xenakis - Rebonds B
Kalr-Heinz Stockhausen - Vibra Elufa
Steve Reich - Mallet Quartet

- Intermission -

Kevin Volans - Four Marimbas
Steve Reich - Drumming Part 1