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Sebastian Currier
American composer
Sebastian Currier (born March 16, 1959) is an American composer of music for chamber groups and orchestras. He was also a professor of music at Columbia University from 1999 to 2007.
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Life
Currier was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Providence, Rhode Island, in a family of talented musicians, including his brother Nathan Currier, also a noted composer. Sebastian Currier received degrees from the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.
His compositions include Crossfade, written for two harps, and Microsymph, described as a "30-minute symphony compressed into 10 minutes."
In October 2005, members of the Berlin Philharmonic performed an entire evening of his works, including the premiere of Remix.[1]
Currier completed the orchestration of Stephen Albert's Symphony No.
2, part of which was unfinished at the time of Albert's death.[2] It was subsequently recorded on Naxos Records along