Colin Currie Group - Steve Reich Drumming

We presented **Steve Reich**’s work for the first time at Bold Tendencies in 2016 as part of the Proms, in the first concerts ever to be held outside the Albert Hall. **Colin Currie** is one of the world’s greatest percussionists and an exceptional player of Steve Reich’s music. Reich himself has said of Currie’s performances, “*Drumming* evolved over time within my own ensemble, and now you listen to Colin Currie play that piece and it’ll knock your socks off. I wish we’d played with that intensity!”. Some 20 years ago, before the beginning of Bold Tendencies, the Proms staged ‘Steve Reich at Seventy’. *Drumming* was presented by the then-newly formed **Colin Currie Group** handpicked especially for the occasion. It is a perfect full circle to bring *Drumming* to Bold Tendencies this year, 20 years after the presentation at the proms, 20 years following the formation of Colin Currie Group, 20 years since the beginning of Bold Tendencies - and in Steve Reich’s 90th Birthday Year.