© Frances Marshall
This week, the Colin Currie Quartet give performances at Birmingham’s Barber Institute and West Road Concert Hall Cambridge.
On 24 March at the Barber Institute, Colin will lead a public workshop on Steve Reich’s Clapping Music, leading to a mass performance of the work at Elgar Concert Hall. The following evening, The Colin Currie Quartet will present works by upcoming young composers such as Andy Akiho and Aileen Sweeney, alongside Julia Wolfe’s compelling work for 4 drum-kits, Dark Full Ride, and music by Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas, Mallet Quartet and Drumming Part 1. The Quartet will then repeat the programme on 27 March as part of the Cambridge Music Festival.
In January, the Colin Currie Quartet gave the world premiere of a new work by Joe Duddell at King’s Place, This Place, These People, a set of musical portraits of people from the King’s Cross migrant community. Earlier in the season the Quartet appeared at Two Moors Festival and ConcertLAB in Utrecht, and in June they perform in Czechia at the Concentus Moraviae festival.
Watch the Colin Currie Quartet perform Steve Reich’s Drumming Part 1 in Utrecht: