Artist Bio
Chuck Currie performs with the Meridiem Wind Orchestra and The Island Big Band in Victoria BC, and has recorded with the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Vancouver Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Royal Canadian Artillery Regimental Band, and the Vancouver Saxophone Ensemble. He is the saxophone and clarinet coach of the BC Honour Wind Ensemble. He has been a clinician for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the British Columbia Music Teachers Association. Mr. Currie is a Backun Clarinet, Yanagisawa Saxophone, Vandoren and Hercules artist-clinician-endorser.
He has performed world-wide at Wind Ensemble, Clarinet and Saxophone Festivals. The reviewer of the opening concert of the 2007 International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest wrote: “Chuck Currie’s interpretation of the bass clarinet solos in Frank Ticheli’s Blue Shades was astonishing. Never have I heard a bass clarinet shape and bend notes like that…what amazing projection! His a Capella duet with Eddie Daniels was magnificent.”
He operates Sax Noir Studio and was the sax and clarinet instructor for St Georges School for 20 years. Students have auditioned successfully for the International Honors Wind Symphony at Lincoln Center, the Canadian Wind Orchestra, the National Youth Band of Canada, The Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, the British Columbia Honour Orchestra, the UBC School of Music, the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Currie’s articles on pedagogy and equipment have been published by The BC Band Journal, Canadian Winds Magazine, Saxophone Journal, The BC Music Educator and Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine.
Read his blog on Hercules Stands here: Hercules Stands-The Only Choice
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