Colin Currie Quartet

Colin Currie makes a welcome return to Cambridge Music Festival with his Quartet of percussionists: specialists in the music of Steve Reich, one of the 'founding fathers' of minimalism.

'Colin Currie Group is technically impeccable and musically overwhelming' The Guardian

From one of the fathers of Minimalism, Steve Reich, to the acclaimed Bang on a Can member, Julia Wolfe, to one of her pupils and a star of the current generation, Andy Akiho. Colin Currie Group showcase three generations of New York percussion with Reich’s hypnotic melodic and rhythmic patterns inspiring the Big Apple energy of Wolfe and Akiho.

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In a city buzzing with live music, CMF explores the best the classical world has to offer and presents it to the people of Cambridge.

We book artists whose touring schedule usually misses out smaller cities, and we select intriguing repertoire that tells a story: from Mozart masses to14th-century middle eastern music; and from Shostakovich quartets to new commissions for percussion. We invite a wide range of international musicians and ensembles for intimate recitals, chamber concerts and larger events with dozens of performers on stage. We’re the only classical promoter in the city to offer this variety and high standard on a regular basis.

CMF has undergone different models since its foundation in 1991, and is now run as a twice-annual series presenting classical music in bold, imaginative and inspiring ways.

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