BBT CELEBRATED 17-19 MAY 2013
Colin Currie
percussion BBT Award Winner 2005
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It is thrilling for me to have been awarded a Borletti-Buitoni prize, for which I am so very grateful. The bursary will be used to pursue a major new commission for a percussion concerto, to be premiered in the near future. Such awards are so very valuable and rare at this "post-launch" stage of ones career, and this is where the BB-Trust is so special and incisive. I am delighted to be the recipient of such an esteemed award.
"There is not a concerto like that anywhere, for any instrument." (Colin Currie.) Excerpt from the live World Premiere recording from Symphony Hall Birmingham 14th May 2008. The work was commissioned for Colin Currie by BBT and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
Colin Currie and Dave Maric discuss their collaboration for the CD "Borrowed Time", in an interview with Meurig Bowen for the Intermusica Podcast September 2007.
"This detailed, thoughtful music, mature in conception, confident in execution and impeccably recorded, is well worth your time." BBC Music Magazine, October 2007. This CD is the result of a long-term collaboration between Dave Maric and Colin Currie. An accompanying film is also on this website.
Live performance of this celebrated work commissioned by Colin Currie, recorded live at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1st October 2006 as part of the BBT Tour with Christian Tetzlaff. A film of the tour is also on this website.
Filmed in 2007 during the creative process for "Borrowed Time", a CD of music by Dave Maric, Håkan Hardenberger and Dave Maric reflect on working with Colin Currie, while the percussionist himself illustrates why Maric’s work is so important to him. Our film includes recording, rehearsal and performance footage from Snape Maltings, St Paul's Church Knightsbridge and LSO St Lukes, London.
A select group of BBT Winners has gained valuable experience through BBT’s tours with Mitsuko Uchida (2004 and 2008) and Christian Tetzlaff (2006). Shot on location in Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, as the group prepared for their six-concert European tour, our film illustrates the value of the residency and the experience gained. With Christian Tetzlaff, Colin Currie, Soovin Kim, Christian Poltéra, Christianne Stotijn and Shai Wosner.