Sebastian Currier

• Recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award (2007), Berlin Prize, Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• Performances by renowned ensembles including the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and the Kronos Quartet
• Currier's music has been enthusiastically embraced by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who commissioned and premiered his violin and piano piece Aftersong, and violin concerto, Time Machines
• RE-FORMATION for chorus and orchestra, premiered by Minnesota Orchestra and Chorus, was named on the New York Times “Best Classical Music Performances of 2017” list.

Works by Sebastian Currier include:
Time Machines (2007) for violin and orchestra
Piano Concerto (2006) for piano and orchestra
Nightmaze (2005) for chamber ensemble
Next Atlantis (2008) for string quartet

Looking Ahead: Currier’s Ghost Trio tours with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, cellist Maximilian Hornung, and pianist Lambert Orkis, receiving its European premiere on May 16 in Poland with several territorial premieres to follow.

The world premiere of Cognitive Dissonance for ensemble is unveiled on June 13 with loadbang at the Miller Theatre.