Recipient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in 2007, Sebastian Currier represents the finest in American composition. * He has received many other awards including the 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. * Currier's music has been enthusiastically embraced by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, who commissioned and premiered his violin and piano piece Aftersong, and who has commissioned him to write a new concerto for violin and orchestra. * Members of the Berlin Philharmonic dedicated a full evening to Currier's extensive chamber music output in October 2005, including the premieres of Remix for mixed ensemble and Crossfade for two harps.
Works by Sebastian Currier include: Time Machines (2007) for violin and orchestra Piano Concerto (2006) for piano and orchestra Nightmaze (2005) for chamber ensemble Quartet Set (1995) for string quartet
Looking Ahead: Anne-Sophie Mutter performs his violin concerto Time Machines with Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR in Essen, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg in January 2012.
