Colin Currie performs the world premiere of Simon Holt's A Table of Noises

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RECITAL PROJECTS

• SOLO RECITAL
• PERCUSSION DISCOVERY - FAMILY CONCERT
• COLIN CURRIE & HÅKAN HARDENBERGER
• PERCUSSION DUO
• ORGAN AND PERCUSSION RECITAL
• PERCUSSION AND PIANO DUO RECITAL

"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

SOLO RECITAL

This programme of new music for an array of solo multi-percussion can be introduced informally from the stage by Colin Currie.

"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

Click on the link below to hear an extract from Dave Maric's Trilogy:

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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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COLIN CURRIE & HÅKAN HARDENBERGER

PERCUSSION AND TRUMPET RECITAL

This dramatic and exciting duo programme is jazz-infused and includes solo works by both artists.

"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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PERCUSSION DUO

WITH COLIN CURRIE AND SAM WALTON

An entertaining duo programme including arrangements of works by Ravel and Bach, upbeat contemporary works by Andres Koppell and Japanese composer Monoru Miki and the funky 42nd Street Rondo by American Wayne Siegel.

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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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PERCUSSION AND PIANO DUO RECITAL

With a central section themed around China, this programme is one hour but can be expanded with additional solo piano or percussion works. Currie collaborates with various pianists including Marielle Labeque, Dave Maric, Ewa Kupiec and others.

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"British percussionist Colin Currie was a bold force of nature. Currie’s dazzling feats of rhythm, speed, and dexterity were riveting. In an episode that mixed marimba with woodwinds, he produced streams of mellifluous timbres."
The Miami Herald, 17 April 2006

"Currie is a consummate musician and an exciting performer to watch – he was certainly put through his paces by Mackey. Although the work centres primarily on the marimba, an exotic array of other instruments was also at hand to ensure the soloist was running the musical equivalent of a marathon. Throughout, there were bursts of jazz, pop riffs and rustic folk bits."
The Scotsman, November 2005