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Colin Currie (Colin David Currie) was born on 25 September, 1976 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, is an Award-winning Scottish percussionist. Discover Colin Currie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

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Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 25 September 1976
Birthday 25 September
Birthplace Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Nationality United Kingdom

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Colin David Currie is a multi award-winning Scottish virtuoso percussionist.

He is the founder and leader of the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble specializing in performing and recording the music of Steve Reich.

Colin Currie began his musical studies at the age of 5.

1990

He attended the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama from 1990 to 1994, where he studied percussion with Pamella Dow and piano with Sheila Desson, both of whom he cites as having an enormous influence on him.

1992

Currie first came to national attention when he won the Gold Medal of the Shell/LSO Competition in 1992, and was subsequently the first percussionist to reach the finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1994.

Currie is considered a charismatic and athletic percussionist and seen as a catalyst for the creation of new music.

Currie performs regularly with many orchestras and conductors around the world.

Well known for championing new music, Currie has premiered works by composers such as Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Jennifer Higdon, Kalevi Aho, Rolf Wallin, Kurt Schwertsik, Simon Holt, Alexander Goehr, Dave Maric, Julia Wolfe and Nico Muhly.

1998

He went on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, and played principal timpani and percussion with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and The European Union Youth Orchestra.

However, solo-performance and chamber music had by that time become his main focus.

2000

He won the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2000, was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist between 2003 and 2005 and received a Bortletti Buitoni Trust Award in 2005.

He has made a number of recordings of contemporary percussion concerti and recorded a solo album, Borrowed Time', on the Onyx label.

Over the course of his career, Currie has made 14 appearances at the BBC Proms, his first was in 2000, performing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, aged 22.

2005

Currie has been Visiting Professor of Solo-Percussion in the Royal Academy of Music in London since 2005, and held the same position at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague from 2005 to 2009.

He has been a staunch champion of education and outreach in music throughout his career, having worked with a variety of age-groups.

2010

His recording of Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

2011

In January 2011, Currie was appointed as an Artist in Residence at London's Southbank Centre and still holds this position.

2013

Currie has been a central figure in festivals hosted by the Southbank Centre: In autumn 2013 as part of the festival The Rest is Noise, Currie and members of the Colin Currie Group performed works by Stockhausen and Steve Reich, which Guy Dammann of The Guardian praised for being "technically impeccable and musically overwhelming".

2014

In 2014, The Southbank Centre presented Metal Wood Skin, a percussion festival dedicated to Currie.

The festival included a number of new commissions, including the world premiere of Reich's Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos and the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen’s Percussion Concerto, Tapdance, alongside new works by James MacMillan and Anna Clyne.

2015

In May 2015, Currie was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award for achievement in the UK during 2014.

In 2015, De Doelen in Rotterdam appointed Currie as Artist in Residence, during which, Currie debuted new works by Dave Maric and Reich.

Later that year, Currie made his China debut with a performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) with the Miró Quartet.

2017

In 2017, Currie launched Colin Currie Records, an independent label with distribution from LSO Live.

In recognition of Currie's continued success, the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland [RCS]) created the Colin Currie Percussion Competition and Prize.

In 2022, the RCS went on to appoint Currie as an Associate Artist.

In October 2022, Currie was announced as the inaugural Ambassador for Chamber Music Scotland, a position he will hold until 2024.

2018

Currie founded chamber ensemble The Colin Currie Group which specializes in the music of Steve Reich, and in 2018, formed the Colin Currie Quartet to perform works for percussion quartet.