Dessner, Reich / Asko|Schönberg / Colin Currie - conductor

"Colin Currie, who earlier laid down a mesmerizing introduction with Bryce Dessner's Tromp Miniature, led Reich with a steady hand. The smooth music seemed to encourage the patterns to multiply kaleidoscopically, and could sound intensely red or pale blue, à la Richter's brush. Beautiful."
Het Parool, April 2023

"Things get more intense when Currie takes a seat behind keyboards with three more pianists (Saskia Lankhoorn, Pauline Post and Tim Sabel) for Steve Reich's Four Organs (1970)… the musicians stop playing at exactly the same time and that one second of spectacular silence only commands great admiration for their concentration and stamina."
de Volkskrant, April 2023

"…the ASKO ensemble produced a warm, swirling symphonic sound, taking full advantage of the Muziekgebouw's acoustics."
Basia Con Fuoco, April 2023

"A stage-wide screen starts full of coloured lines, one thinner than the other, blending into each other. Slowly, the lines develop into brightly coloured patterns that flow across the screen (with breathtakingly deep colour contrast for a projection, it looks like stained glass)… Behind that screen are fourteen musicians from Asko|Schönberg, who can very occasionally be seen through the images."
NRC, April 2023

Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians release

Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians release

On 21st April, the Colin Currie Group will release their album Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. Following the success of Colin’s previous Steve Reich albums, (Steve Reich: Drumming in 2018 and Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2019), this album, recorded with Synergy Vocals at Abbey Road Studios, is to be the sixth release on Colin Currie Records and the third in a series of Steve Reich recordings.

Concerts with the Asko|Schönberg ensemble

Concerts with the Asko|Schönberg ensemble

In March and April, Colin makes his debut conducting the Asko|Schönberg ensemble in three concerts which present Steve Reich’s Four Organs and Reich/Richter fused with visual artist Gerhard Richter’s Patterns. Colin plays a triple role in this concert; as well as conducting the Reich/Richter piece, he also performs a solo marimba work, Tromp Miniature by Bryce Dessner, and then plays the organ in Reich’s Four Organs.

Colin Currie Quartet Concert at Kings Place

Colin Currie Quartet Concert at Kings Place

The Colin Currie Quartet’s performance at London’s Kings Place last month was met with overwhelming praise by the press as they captivated their audience with music by Steve Reich, Connor Shafran, and Rolf Wallin, to name a few. The quartet received a number of wonderful reviews from varying sources including The Guardian, who described the concert as “a sonic display of startling magnificence”. 

Colin Currie Quartet, King's Place

“The Colin Currie Quartet made Kings Place resound with radical rhythms and technical precision…  This was rhythm as pure excitement, and it concluded a concert that richly explored the nature of music and rhythm.” Financial Times, January 2023

“A sonic display of startling magnificence… The centrepiece was Drumming, tuned bongos impeccably synchronised, slipping and looping in and out of phase...  Julia Wolfe’s Dark Full Ride, crackling, eruptive, dangerous, made a noisy and spectacular finale.” Observer, January 2023

"...raw fizzing energy of the percussion section from Julia Wolfe’s Dark Full Ride. By the end of the concert it felt as if we were not just listening through our ears but through every cell in the body as the vibrations charged and electrified the atmosphere." ArtsDesk, January 2023 

Colin Currie Quartet play at London’s Kings Place 

Colin Currie Quartet play at London’s Kings Place 

Colin kicks off the new year with a return to Kings Place in London on 20th January for a concert with the Colin Currie Quartet. The programme consists of ‘multiple sound groups’ of early Steve Reich works, including his composition, Drumming. Other compositions include Connor Shafran’s Continental Divide, and John Luther Adams’ Qilyuan with which the group experiment using four bass drums in all four corners of the hall.