Colin Currie

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Colin David Currie (born 25 September 1976), is a Scottish Solo Percussionist.

Biography

Early Years

Colin Currie began his musical studies at the age of 5, going on to study at the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1990-1994. There he studied percussion with Pamella Dow and piano with Sheila Desson, both of whom had an enormous influence on him. He then went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, and played principal timpani and percussion with both The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and The European Union Youth Orchestra. However, solo-performance, and chamber music had by that time become his main focus.

Colin first came to national attention when he won the Gold Medal of the Shell/LSO Competition in 1992, and was subsequently the first percussionist to reach the finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994. Colin Currie is considered as one of the most charismatic young artists in the world of contemporary music[1] and seen as a catalyst for the creation of new music.[2] He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2000,[3] was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist between 2003-2005[4] and received a Bortletti Buitoni Trust Award in 2005.[5]

Career

Colin Currie now performs regularly with many orchestras and conductors around the world. He often commissions new music for percussion which he performs with orchestras and in recital, having worked with composers such as Einojuhani Rautavaara[6] and Simon Holt.[7] Colin Currie leads percussion ensemble The Colin Currie Group which performs the music of Steve Reich.[8] He has made a number of recordings of contemporary percussion concerti and recorded a solo album “Borrowed Time” on the Onyx label, and his recording of Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto won the 2010 Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition.[9]

Colin Currie is Visiting Professor of Solo-Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and is involved in educational and outreach work with a variety of age-groups. In January 2011 Currie was appointed as an Artist in Residence at London's Southbank Centre for the 2011-12 season.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Ashley, Tim (19 January 2005). "MacMillan weekend (part 2), Barbican, London". The Guardian (London). 
  2. ↑ Norris, Geoffrey (28 July 2003). "Proms 10: means fail to justify the end". The Daily Telegraph (London). 
  3. ↑ http://www.rpsmusicawards.com/undefined//?page=pastwinners/pastyoungartist.html
  4. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/newgenerations/currie.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.bbtrust.com/2005/awards/colin_currie.html
  6. ↑ http://londonphilharmonic.wordpress.com/tag/rautavaara/
  7. ↑ http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2432&State_3041=2&workId_3041=36146
  8. ↑ http://intermusica.co.uk/currie/drumming
  9. ↑ http://www.grammy.com/nominees?category=190#best-classical-contemporary-composition
  10. ↑ Anon (2011). "Southbank Centre Classical Music 2011_12 Season". Southbank Centre Press Release notes. Retrieved 14 May 2011. 

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