Colin Currie - Commissions

Lucid Intervals
for percussion and trumpet

Commissioned by Colin Currie (with support from BBT)

Colin Currie percussion

Håkan Hardenberger trumpet

31 July 2006 Verbier Festival (World Premiere)

a table of noises
for percussion and orchestra

Commissioned by Colin Currie (with support from BBT)
and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Colin Currie percussion

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins conductor

14 May 2008 Symphony Hall, Birmingham (World Premiere)

Winner of British Composer Award 2009 for Orchestral Composition

This work shows an extraordinary sense of beguiling and haunting instrumental sonorities, defining a piece of breathtaking originality, imagination, invention and wit.

Citation, British Composer Awards 2009

Nominated for RPS Award 2009 for Large Scale Composition

Listen to an excerpt from the world premiere recording, courtesy of NMC, here

NMC | D218 | nmcrec.co.uk

Photograph by Sarah Hickson

Tangle
for trumpet and percussion

Commissioned by Colin Currie (with support from BBT)

Colin Currie percussion

Håkan Hardenberger trumpet

14 April 2011 ProMusica, Hannover (World Premiere)

Photographer by Markus Sepperer