Colin Currie
Percussion
“Colin Currie's athletic playing was as dazzling and persuasive as the work itself.”
The Guardian, October 2009
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RECITAL PROJECTS
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"Currie [introduced] most of the numbers cabaret-style from the platform, attacking a sequence of fiendish solos. These included Per Norgaard’s Fire Over Water and Louis Andriessen’s Woodpecker - the former joyously cacophonous, the latter more subdued, albeit fiendish in its rhythmic complexity... The brilliance of Currie’s playing is inseparable from the thrill of watching him perform acts of tremendous dexterity that seemingly draw on endless reserves of stamina."
The Guardian , 17 February 2007
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SOLO RECITAL
This programme of new music for an array of solo multi-percussion can be introduced informally from the stage by Colin Currie.
| Louis Andriessen |
Woodpecker |
| Dave Maric |
Sense and Innocence |
| Per Norgaard |
'Fire over Water' from I Ching |
| Steve Reich |
Nagoya Marimbas |
| Iannis Xenakis |
Rebonds B
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| Steven Mackey |
See Yah Thursday |
| Dave Maric |
Trilogy
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"Colin Currie is a musician first and a percussionist second…The instruments were played with a wonderful range of touch….A marvellous concert which got the South Bank Centre's Rhythm Sticks festival off to a flying start" Telegraph , July 2002
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Click on the link below to hear an extract from Dave Maric's Trilogy :
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COLIN CURRIE & HÅKAN HARDENBERGER
PERCUSSION AND TRUMPET RECITAL
This dramatic and exciting duo programme is jazz-infused and includes solo works by both artists.
| Daniel Börtz |
Dialogo 4 |
| Dave Maric |
Sense and Innocence |
| Dave Maric |
Lucid Intervals |
| Toru Takemitsu |
Paths |
| Louis Andriessen |
Woodpecker |
| Andre Jolivet |
Heptade |
"Hardenberger's style, generating tremendous emotions out of stillness, is the perfect dramatic foil for Currie's overt dynamism. Even in their duets, the theatrical element was dominant. The percussion layout resembled an altar, turning Currie into the celebrant of some arcane ritual; he goaded Hardenberger into a series of stylised responses, by turns ululating and ecstatic. Enthralling stuff, every second of it."
From LSO St Luke's, The Guardian , February 2007
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COLIN CURRIE & NIC HODGES (PERCUSSION & PIANO DUO)
"Nicolas Hodges and Colin Currie's Proms performance of Stockhausen's Kontakte was one of the season's highlights, and clearly showed that the new partnership between the pianist and the percussionist had gelled right from the start. Soon afterwards Hodges and Currie announced they planned to work together regularly, and one of the first products of that alliance is their recital at the Wigmore Hall.
The repertoire for piano and percussion may not be a very large one - the programme here includes works by Joe Duddell, Elliott Carter, Dave Maric and Louis Andriessen. But its centrepiece is one of Harrison Birtwistle's least familiar works, The Axe Manual. It will be fascinating to hear what Hodges... and Currie make of it."
The Guardian, 21 October 2008
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PERCUSSION DISCOVERY - FAMILY CONCERT
A family event introducing percussion with onstage participation and audience involvement. Musical influences from Africa, Brazil, Japan and Indonesia are featured in music by composers such as Steve Reich, Matthias Schmitt, Ney Rosauro and Per Norgaard.
"The concert attracted a huge audience that included family groups (with babies) and youngsters of every age. Was this audience intimidated or put off by the uncompromising music they faced? No way. Currie, completely unfazed by his youngest- ever audience turned the situation to his advantage, inviting groups of kids onto the floor to lay into his battery of drums."
Glasgow Herald reviews family concert at St Magnus Festival , June 2002
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ORGAN AND PERCUSSION RECITAL
This striking and atmospheric programme presents duo works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Dave Maric, Petr Eben and William Bolcom's celebrated work Black Host . With Clive Driskell-Smith (organist, Westminster Abbey).
Click here to listen to an extract from Dave Maric's Borrowed Time.
"Maric took pains to ensure that the organ writing was carefully subdued beneath the patterns that Currie played on marimba, before shifting the balance gradually in the organ's favour. In the second half of the piece, where the vibraphone takes the marimba's role in a kind of surreal echo, he achieves something genuinely atmospheric… Sofia Gubadulina's Detto 1 had at its heart both an appealing immediacy and an earnestly contemplative spirit."
Evening Standard , June 2003
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