This week, Colin returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to take on the UK premieres of two captivating concertos.
On Thursday 6 February, Colin will take the stage at Glasgow City Halls to perform Olga Neuwirth’s sci-fi inspired percussion concerto, Trurliade - Zone Zero, conducted by Mihhail Gerts (who replaces Ilan Volkov).
At 35 minutes long, Olga states that the concerto is inspired by both the ‘typewriter scene’ from the movie Who’s Minding the Store? (1963), and the algorithmic systems, which eliminate trader input, in stock market trading.
The “brazenly modernistic” work, as Colin describes it, requires him to perform at an extremely large percussion station, together with a full orchestra. Thera are also three additional percussion stations that are each manned by an orchestral player, positioned at the rear of the orchestra.
The concert will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 at 7.30pm GMT, and will be available to listen back to on BBC Sounds.
Colin’s percussion set up for Trurliade - Zone Zero
Then on Friday 7 February, Colin will once again join the BBC SSO, this time to perform the UK premiere of Andy Akiho's Percussion Concerto at Aberdeen Music Hall. Colin recently performed the work last month in a five-date tour of Belgium with the Brussels Philharmonic.
The work, originally written for Colin in 2019, uses a battery of instruments, including a toy piano, vibraphone, glockenspiel, kick drum, snare drum, car-brake drum, and even tuned rice bowls hit with chopsticks.
Colin recently sat down with Intermusica to discuss the two works, as well as his other upcoming concerto engagements this Spring. Watch below: