Championing new music at the highest level, Colin Currie is the soloist of choice for many of today’s foremost composers and performs regularly with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors.
Highlights of the 2019/20 season include the world premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s Percussion Concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Mikko Franck in April 2020. Another major season highlight is Currie’s conducting debut, conducting the Britten Sinfonia in the European premiere of Steve Reich’s Reich/Richter in the Barbican, London, in October 2019. The Colin Currie Group also return to the Southbank Centre for four sold-out performances of Drumming at the Hayward Gallery.
A dynamic and adventurous soloist, Currie’s unrivalled commitment to commissioning and creating new music was recognised by the Royal Philharmonic Society who awarded him the 2015 Instrumentalist Award. Currie has premiered works by a multitude of composers, and in the coming seasons will premiere new works by Bruno Mantovani, Steve Reich and Nicole Lizée among others. Currie is Artist in Association at London’s Southbank Centre and performs widely with his dynamic ensemble the Colin Currie Group, formed in 2006, specialising in the music of Steve Reich.
In October 2017 Currie launched Colin Currie Records, in conjunction with LSO Live, as a platform for his diverse projects, celebrating the extraordinary developments for percussion music over the past century.
Beethoven: Variasjoner over "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'' fra ''Die Zauberflöte'', op. 66 (c.1798)
Christian Poltéra (cello), Kristian Bezuidenhout (hammerklaver)
Tobias Broström: Drømvariasjoner (2011)
Håkan Hardenberger (trompet), Colin Currie (perkusjon)
Beethoven: Andante con variazione, WoO 44 nr. 2 (1792 - 1800)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Kristian Bezuidenhout (hammerklaver)
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Beethoven: Variasjoner over en vals av Diabelli, op. 120 (1819 - 1823)
Paul Lewis (klaver)
Beethoven: Klaversonate nr. 7 i D-dur, op. 10 nr. 3 (1798)
Kristian Bezuidenhout (hammerklaver)
Beethoven: Adagio for mandolin og klaver i Ess-dur, WoO 43 nr. 2 (1796)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Víkingur Ólafsson (klaver)
Beethoven: Sonatine for mandolin og klaver i C-dur, WoO 44 nr. 1 (1796)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Víkingur Ólafsson (klaver)
Beethoven: Klavertrio i B-dur, op. 11 (siste sats: Tema con variazioni) (1797)
Björn Nyman (klarinett), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (klaver)
Ketil Hvoslef: Beethoven Trio (1997)
Björn Nyman (klarinett), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Leif Ove Andsnes (klaver)
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Beethoven: Strykekvartett nr. 16 i F-dur, op. 135 (1826)
Quatuor Ébène
Beethoven: Cellosonate nr. 2 i g-moll, op. 5 no. 2 (1796)
Christian Poltéra (cello), Jonathan Biss (klaver)
Joe Duddell: Catch I , II and III (2009)
Håkan Hardenberger (trompet), Colin Currie (perkusjon)
Beethoven: Klaversonate nr. 27 i e-moll, op. 90 (1814)
Jonathan Biss (klaver)
Beethoven: Klaversonate nr. 30 i E-dur, op. 109 (1820)
Jonathan Biss (klaver)
J. S. Bach arr. for mandolin av Avi Avital: Chaconne fra Partita nr 2. BWV 1004 (1717 - 1720)
Avi Avital (mandolin)
Beethoven: Fantasia i g-moll, op. 77 (1809)
Víkingur Ólafsson (klaver)
Rolf Wallin: Realismos Magicos (2014)
Colin Currie (perkusjon)
Vivaldi arr. Avital: Konsert for lutt i D-dur, RV. 93 (1730 - 1731)
Avi Avital (mandolin), Guro Kleven Hagen (fiolin), N.N. (fiolin), Henninge Landaas (bratsj), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Karol Ciesluk (kontrabass), Kristian Bezuidenhout (cembalo)
Lene Grenager: Utdrag fra Mixed Handedness for solocello (2017)
Lene Grenager (cello)
Beethoven: Folkesanger
Christiane Karg (sopran), Guro Kleven Hagen (fiolin), Jakob Koranyi (cello), Jonathan Biss (klaver)
