Russell Currie
- Composer
- Music Department
Russell Currie is recognised as a versatile composer, having written
music for films, opera/music theatre, chamber music and dance. His
music is rich in dramatic orchestral colour with direct emotional
lyrical lines that discover an effective balance between dissonance and
clarifying tonality. His works have been sponsored by Millennium
Pictures, Scottish Television, City of Glasgow, New York State Council
on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, American Music
Centre, Meet The Composer and the Astor Foundation. He was the Music
Director for 'Illustrations of a Tormented Mind', Prague's celebration
of the 150th anniversary of the death of Edgar Allan Poe. The festival
presented films, drama, exhibitions, orchestral music and opera where
his Poe Opera Trilogy was performed to sold-out audiences at the Prague
Castle. Articles on his music have appeared in The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians, numerous magazines and periodicals with TV and
radio appearances on the BBC, WQXR, WNYC, and Deutsche Welle. He
trained at the Eastman School of Music under Christopher Rouse and
Joseph Schwantner, where he received the Max Dreyfus Award for Music
Theatre.
He scored Rob Green's _Bunker, THe (2001)_, a thriller/horror feature film starring Jason Flemyng and Jack Davenport. Produced in London's Twickenham Film Studios, The Bunker was screened at Cannes with theatrical releases throughout Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. The composer orchestrated and produced the 35 minute full orchestral and choral score which was digitally recorded in 5.1 surround sound with The Prague Symphony Orchestra and Kuhn Mixed Chorus in the Dvorak Hall in Prague's world renowned Rudolfinum. He also scored Green's The Black Cat for orchestra and chorus based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story, which was released in the UK with The Dark Half and is often seen on Channel 4 (UK). Sight and Sound praised the soundtrack as "a superb music score and a wonderful symphony of clanks and creaks, that functions as a talking book of the story." Other film scores include: Dizzy Horse, a finalist at the Student Academy Awards and AZUL, a film about the poets of Nicaragua that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.
He scored Rob Green's _Bunker, THe (2001)_, a thriller/horror feature film starring Jason Flemyng and Jack Davenport. Produced in London's Twickenham Film Studios, The Bunker was screened at Cannes with theatrical releases throughout Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. The composer orchestrated and produced the 35 minute full orchestral and choral score which was digitally recorded in 5.1 surround sound with The Prague Symphony Orchestra and Kuhn Mixed Chorus in the Dvorak Hall in Prague's world renowned Rudolfinum. He also scored Green's The Black Cat for orchestra and chorus based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story, which was released in the UK with The Dark Half and is often seen on Channel 4 (UK). Sight and Sound praised the soundtrack as "a superb music score and a wonderful symphony of clanks and creaks, that functions as a talking book of the story." Other film scores include: Dizzy Horse, a finalist at the Student Academy Awards and AZUL, a film about the poets of Nicaragua that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.