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This week, Colin returns to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra - this time to play/direct the ensemble across two concerts at Edinburgh’s The Queen's Hall, and at Glasgow’s City Hall.
The programme will open with Joe Duddell’s Snowblind, a work close to Colin that was written specifically for him, receiving it’s world premiere over 20 years ago in Inverness in 2002.
Read more about how Colin utilises the keyboard percussion instruments in a feature with SCO.
Colin will then perform the UK premiere of Helen Grime’s River, a two-movement work that contrasts “flow and energy” with “moments of glassy stasis“ inspired the characteristics of a river. No stranger to Grime’s works, Colin has previously performed the world premiere of Grime’s Percussion Concerto alongside the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019.
Read more about Helen Grime’s River.
The concert will then culminate in performances of two minimalist masterpieces: Steve Reich’s Runner and Double Sextet, directed by Colin.
Earlier this year, Colin and the Colin Currie Group launched a crowdfunding campaign to record Reich’s complete Sextet works, which are planned to be released to mark the composer’s 90th birthday celebrations in 2026.
Watch the trailer for Colin’s SCO concerts below: