Colin Currie performs this weekend in Valladolid the “Concerto for percussion and orchestra” by Joey Roukens.
The Scottish percussionist Colin Currie (Edinburgh, 1976), best known for leading the Colin Currie Group and for his performances and recordings of the music of Steve Reich, will perform this coming weekend, Friday and Saturday 19 and 20 May, in the Miguel Delibes Auditorium in Valladolid, performing one of his favourite works, the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by the Dutch composer Joey Roukens (Schiedam, 1982), composed and dedicated precisely for Currie and commissioned by the De Doelen Concert Hall in the city of Rotterdam.
Currie, who has defined the work as “immensely colourful, using a large percussion palette of several set-ups and keyboard instruments, all supported by the composer’s trademark kaleidoscopic orchestration,” has performed the half-hour piece on several occasions since its premiere in 2011. On this occasion, Currie will be accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, conducted by the French Chloé van Soeterstède. The rest of the programme is completed by D’un matin de printemps, by the French composer Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and Symphony No. 2 in C major, op. 61, by Robert Schumann (1810-1856).