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Fergus Currie

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Here's the video clip that goes with the fourth movement of my Sinfonietta
SPECIAL OFFER! MUSIC FOR STRINGS NOW AVAILABLE AT FNAC IN THE MALL (ATHENS) FOR ONLY 11.99 euros!
You can also buy my new CD on-line. Click on the Image below to link directly to Studio 52l site.
Here you can listen to another 4 excerpts from 'Music for Strings' while you're making up your mind about ordering it. (From the fifth track onward is music from the amazing new video game 'Theseis' for which I'm writing the orchestral score.)
Have a look at the profile for Sanctuary of Sound. This is the group that will play the Asylum music
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Here's an interesting and on-the-ball bass player called Philip Baumgarten. Bassists, check his lessons out now!
Here's a short promo video of the recording sessions in the Cadogan Hall in Chelsea.
Here's something quite brilliant!
here's something for Bebop!
Review of Music for Strings on page 129 of this month's Pop & Rock magazine!!
It's a super review for a classical CD!
You can also read a five star review of my CD Music for Strings by Alexander Harkiolakis on the classicalmusic.gr web site in Greek (there is a translation in my blog). click the icon"
Hxos&Eikona, the respected Hi-Fi magazine printed a very perceptive review of Music for Strings by well known music jounalist Nikos Dontas. You can read it in Greek here:
(there is also a translation on my blog).
Here's a nice photo of myself in conversation with Jonathan Morton, leader of the Scottish Ensemble, during the recording of the Sinfonietta. Jonathan was playing co principal first violin beside Rosie Furniss.
Here's a picture I took of comet Holmes which is in Perseus at the moment
Have a look at Madeleine Shepherd's work:
A BIT ABOUT ME
I am a chess playing, stargazing, philosophizing, model airplane flying, furniture building, tortoise breeding, book reading, and art loving musician who lives and works in Athens, Greece. I love listening to jazz music and looking at renaissance paintings. If I could combine the two into one integrated activity I would do it! I enjoy immensely the works of Hermann Hesse, Umberto Eco and Nabokov. I delight in reading the texts of Richard Feynman, especially at his most lyrical. I was a student of Ninian Perry to whom I owe many thanks as a spiritual and musical inspiration.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2007
Band Website: curriefergus.com
Band Members: Christopher Warren-Green conducts The London Chamber Orchestra on my latest album "music for srtings"

The Sanctuary of Sound Ensemble:

Soprano Saxophone:
Katerina Georgiadou
Flugel Horn:
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Cor Inglais:
Xeno Symvoulidis
Bass Clarinet:
Marie Cecille
Piano:
Chris Papageorgiou
Harp:
Maria Bidea
Percussion:
Mike Diakogeorgis
Strings:
Julia Avetian
George Kaloudis

Influences: Gerald Finzi,
Kenneth Leighton,
Nick Ingman,
John Ireland,
Richard Harvey,
Steve Reich,
Tangerine Dream,
Popol Vu,
Mark Isham,
Bobo Stenson,
Steve Hillage,
Glen Phillips,
Palestrina,
Bach,
Copland (Aaron and Stewart),
Michael Nyman,
Sounds Like: All the hopes and dreams of humanity in a single sound.
Record Label: http://www.track7music.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

1000 euros for a scenario! ARE YOU KIDDING?

The Prize ScriptHow could this be? All over the world people were working in the theatre and in the movies, on TV scripts and radio shows. Screenwriters and playwrights were raking in the dividends of...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:06:00 PST

Review in Rock&pop

Review from Rock&Pop MagazineThere are some very poetic comments in the Greek original which kind of lose something in the translation, notably the bit about ships. Petros gets quite into this allegor...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:42:00 PST

Review in 'Hxos&Eikona'

Fergus Currie - Music for Strings (tr7cd100023)Most readers will remember Fergus Currie as the double bass player with Kamerata formany years. This Scotsman, who apart from interpreter is also a cond...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:23:00 PST

Five stars on classicalmusic.gr

Music For String Fergus Currie ***** (5 stars)Alexandros Harkiolakis for classicalmusic.grThese days, especially in the arts, complexity rules and simplicity is retreating. Many times, this resul...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:02:00 PST

The Disappearence

Heavy, gray clouds drag themselves reluctantly acrossthe sky low and thick. A wet pavement with crushed andbroken paving stones, paralyzed from years of neardisuse, crawls through a deserted backstree...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:30:00 PST

What do I think about music?

What do I think about music? Music is more than a language; it goes beyond what can be translated into other languages. The meaning of a verbal sentence can easily be transferred from one language to ...
Posted by Fergus Currie on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:53:00 PST