Colin Currie has previously performed Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto with the North Carolina Symphony in 2009, conducted by Grant Llewellyn for concerts in Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

    Hailed as being “at the summit of percussion performance today” (Gramophone) Colin Currie appears with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, and Minnesota orchestras.
    Recognized in 2015 by the Royal Philharmonic Society with their Instrumentalist Award, Currie won the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award in 2001 and received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005. He has premiered works by composers such as Steve Reich, Elliott Carter, Louis Andriessen, HK Gruber, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Sir James MacMillan, Brett Dean, Jennifer Higdon, Andrew Norman, Julia Wolfe, and Nico Muhly.
    In October 2017 Currie launched Colin Currie Records, in conjunction with the London Symphony Orchestra’s LSO Live. Since the label’s first release, the Colin Currie Group’s recording of Steve Reich’s Drumming, he has released The Scene of the Crime, with Håkan Hardenberger; Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton, featuring the Colin Currie Group; and most recently, HK Gruber Percussion Concertos, with the BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena, and John Storgårds.
    A major highlight of Currie’s 2021/22 season is the world premiere of a significant new work by Steve Reich, Traveler’s Prayer. Other highlights include the world premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s Percussion Concerto, Allegro Barbaro, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the world premiere of Danny Elfman’s Percussion Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by the U.S. premiere with Pacific Symphony, and the world premiere of Nicole Lizée’s percussion concerto Blurr is the Colour of My True Love's Eyes with Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra.
    Currie is co-Artistic Curator of the Grafenegg Academy alongside Håkan Hardenberger, where he will perform the Austrian premiere of Helen Grime’s Percussion Concerto as well as coaching, conducting, and performing chamber music. He is also Artist in Association at London’s Southbank Centre, where he was the focus of a major percussion festival, Metal Wood Skin, in 2014; he continues to perform there every season.
    Colin Currie plays Zildjian cymbals and is a Marimba One Artist.