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10-12-2009

Recital: Visiting Professor of Composition: Sebastian Currier

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VISITING PROFESSOR OF COMPOSITION

Recital. Featuring the music of Sebastian Currier

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Aerialism Sebastian Cwrier

I. Ethereal, Lyrical and Serene II. Hushed, Fast and Intense III. Expressive, Intimate and Forceful IV. Mechanical, Assertive and Disjointed V. . Nostalgic, Flowing and Remote

ElizabethSimkin*, cello JenniferHayghe*, piano

*School of Music Faculty

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Photographic, video, and. sound recording and/or transmitting devices are not permitted inthe Whalen Center concert halls. Please turn off all cell phone ringtones. Sebastian Currier is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Heral.ded as "music with a distinctive voice" by the New York Times and. as "lyrical, colorful, firmly rooted in tradition, but absolutely new" by the Washington Post; his music has been performed at major venues worldwide by acclaimed artists and orchestras.

A full evening of his chamber music was presented by the Berlin Philharmonic last fall,. which included two premieres, This fall he retume to Berlin again for the premiere of Broken Minuets, performed by harpist Marie-Pierre Langlamet and the Oriol Ensemble at the Philharmonie.

His music has been enthusiastically embraced by .violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom he wrote Aftersong, which she performed extensively in the US and Europe, including Carnegie Han in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Barbican in London, and the· Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg.. A .critic from the London Times said, "if all his pieces areas emotionally charged and ingenious in their use of rethought tonality as this1 give me more." He is currently Writing her a concerto.

His Microsymph, referred to by the composer as a large~scale symphony that has been squeezed into only ten minutes, was commissioned by the American ComposerOrchestra and premiered at Carnegie Hall. It has also been performed by such orchestras as the San fo1ncisc0Symphqny, the . Gewandhuas Orchestra, Eos Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra, and has been recorded by the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra with Hugh Wolff, conductor. ·

He has also written works that involve electronic media and video. Nightrnaze, a multimedia piece based on a text of Thomas Bolt in which protagonist dreams he is rushing along a dark, enormous highway, where strange roadsigns loom up only to disappear into the night, has been performed by Network for New Music and the Mosaic Ensemble. The Philadelphia Inquirer said "every tum is breathtaking' and the New York Times, "Currier's richand imaginative music sets the right tone, with its fractured and dissonant b11roque-like gestures leading offlike highway exits into the void and hinting at distant reservoirs of emotion and yearning. "

His new CD of string quartets,. recorded by the Cassatt Quartet, says the New York Times, "distances the present from the past, causing the listener to think about music itself." A CD of mixed chamber music, recorded by Music from Copland House will be released shortly. · ·

He has received many prestigious awards including the Berlin Prize, Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for tJ:ie Arts, and an AcademyAward from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has held residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies. He received a DMA from theJuilliard School and currently teaches.at Columbia University. His wOrks are published by Carl Fischer.