Sebastian Currier

Title: Frames
Commission: 1996
Completed: 1998
Instrumentation: cello, piano
Premiere Location: Merkin Hall, NYC
Premiere Ensemble: Cygnus Ensemble
Notes:

Sebastian Currier is the recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award. Heralded 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, including Anne-Sophie Mutter, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and the Kronos Quartet.

His music has been enthusiastically embraced by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom he wrote Time Machines, which she premiered with the New York Philharmonic in June 2011 and subsequently performed with various orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He also wrote Aftersong for her, which she performed extensively in the US and Europe, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Barbican in London, and the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg. A critic from the London Times said, “if all his pieces are as emotionally charged and ingenious in their use of rethought tonality as this, give me more.”