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On Thursday 15 May, Colin will return to South America to perform with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra and to conduct the OSESP Academy in a concert later that week.
In three consecutive dates, Colin will join the orchestra to perform the Latin American premiere of Andrew Norman’s percussion concerto Switch, conducted by Jac van Steen.
Colin gave the world premiere of the work in 2015 with the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer, which was recorded and released on Reference Records as part of their world premieres album Dawn To Dust.
“Soloist Colin Currie has a heyday with the solo part, dashing off riffs on every drum, keyboard, and accessory percussion toy you can think of. His prowess spreads across the orchestra, who switch gears fearlessly as they negotiate Norman’s vertiginous labyrinth.”
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On Sunday 18 May, Colin will conduct the OSESP Academy Orchestra in a programme featuring three Scottish composers: Anna Meredith’s Nautilus, Helen Grime’s Near Midnight, and James MacMillan’s The Confession of Isobel Gowdie. He will also lead a new version of Louis Andriessen’s Tapdance - another work in which Colin gave the world premiere in 2014 with Asko|Schönberg at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Watch Colin talk about Andrew Norman’s ‘very virtuosic’ Switch in an interview with Intermusica (1:57):