The Colin Currie Quartet with composer Aileen Sweeney at the premiere of her Starburst in Glasgow
This week the Colin Currie Quartet embark on a recital tour around Scotland, supported by Chamber Music Scotland of which Colin Currie is Ambassador. The Quartet will perform at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Cumnock Tryst (in a concert marking the launch of the Festival’s 2024 programme), in Banchory with the Woodend Music Society and Aboyne Arts Group, in Castle Douglas with the Gatehouse Music Society, and in Biggar with Biggar Music. The Quartet will present programmes centred on works by Andy Akiho, Julia Wolfe, Dave Maric, Steve Reich, Kevin Volans, Rolf Wallin, and including the world premiere of a new work by Aileen Sweeney, Starburst.
The tour follows the Quartet’s performance at Wigmore Hall in February, where they unveiled a new programme that included the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's Stone Fruit (specially written for the Quartet) and the London premiere of Amy Beth Kirsten’s may the devil take me.
“The CCQ – Currie himself, Owen Gunnell, Adrian Spillett and Sam Walton – is a phenomenal group… Sharing instruments, pairing off in rhythmical games, a floating sense of pulse, now a woody texture, now something metallic – and all at a ferocious pace – it was a sheer delight.”