Sebastian Currier
b. 1959
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Recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 2007, Sebastian Currier represents the finest in American composition. * He has received many other awards including the Berlin Prize, Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. * Currier's music has been enthusiastically embraced by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who commissioned and premiered his violin and piano piece Aftersong, and who has commissioned him to write a new concerto for violin and orchestra. * Members of the Berlin Philharmonic dedicated a full evening to Currier's extensive chamber music output in October 2005, including the premieres of Remix for mixed ensemble and Crossfade for two harps.
Works by Sebastian Currier include:
Microsymph (1997) for orchestra
Nightmaze (2005) for chamber ensemble
Quartetset (1995) for string quartet
Looking ahead:
Group Dynamics for wind ensemble will receive its premiere at the University of Louisville in November 2008; Currier is currently composing a piece for panoramic video, electronics, and string quartet in collaboration the Ying Quartet, video artist Pawel Wojtasik, and Mass MoCA.
Group Dynamics for wind ensemble will receive its premiere at the University of Louisville in November 2008; Currier is currently composing a piece for panoramic video, electronics, and string quartet in collaboration the Ying Quartet, video artist Pawel Wojtasik, and Mass MoCA.
Also visit the Sebastian Currier website at www.sebastiancurrier.com
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