Chuck Currie
Canadian Multi-Instrumentalist
Canada
I have been using Légère Reeds since 2008, starting with the Classic Cut, and every iteration has just gotten better... which is a very high bar! The new French Cuts are my favourite, and the American Cut Saxophone and European Cut Clarinet reeds are also amazing. We now have a choice between “regular” and “thick blank” reeds. It’s just stupendous!
Chuck Currie performs with the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, the Swiftsure Big Band, Pacific Basswood, Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre, and the Bass Clarinet Choir of l’Association Canadienne de Clarinette Basse. He has founded the Celestial Saxophone Orchestra in Victoria, the only professional ensemble of its kind in Canada.
He has recorded with the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Vancouver Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Royal Canadian 15th Field Artillery Regimental Band, and the Vancouver Saxophone Ensemble.
He has been the Saxophone and Clarinet Coach of the BC Honour Wind Ensemble, and a clinician for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the BC Music Teachers Association. Since moving to Victoria BC, he is the Educational Liaison of the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, chairing their School Clinic Program, their Youth Soloist Competition, and the Meridiem Youth Wind Orchestra. He was inducted as a Canadian Champion for Music Education in 2010.
Mr. Currie is a Backun Clarinet and Yanagisawa Saxophone artist. He has performed world-wide at Big Band, Wind Ensemble, Clarinet and Saxophone Festivals. The reviewer of the opening concert of the 2007 International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest held in Vancouver 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 unaccompanied duet with Eddie Daniels was also magnificent.”
Mr. Currie’s articles on music have been published by Saxophone Journal, The BC Band Journal, Canadian Winds Magazine, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine, and The British Columbia Music Educator, and have achieved over 25,000 reads on ResearchGate.
Chuck Currie performs with the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, the Swiftsure Big Band, Pacific Basswood, Victoria On Stage Musical Theatre, and the Bass Clarinet Choir of l’Association Canadienne de Clarinette Basse. He has founded the Celestial Saxophone Orchestra in Victoria, the only professional ensemble of its kind in Canada.
He has recorded with the Vancouver Island Symphony, the Vancouver Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Royal Canadian 15th Field Artillery Regimental Band, and the Vancouver Saxophone Ensemble.
He has been the Saxophone and Clarinet Coach of the BC Honour Wind Ensemble, and a clinician for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the BC Music Teachers Association. Since moving to Victoria BC, he is the Educational Liaison of the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, chairing their School Clinic Program, their Youth Soloist Competition, and the Meridiem Youth Wind Orchestra. He was inducted as a Canadian Champion for Music Education in 2010.
Mr. Currie is a Backun Clarinet and Yanagisawa Saxophone artist. He has performed world-wide at Big Band, Wind Ensemble, Clarinet and Saxophone Festivals. The reviewer of the opening concert of the 2007 International Clarinet Association Clarinetfest held in Vancouver 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 unaccompanied duet with Eddie Daniels was also magnificent.”
Mr. Currie’s articles on music have been published by Saxophone Journal, The BC Band Journal, Canadian Winds Magazine, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine, and The British Columbia Music Educator, and have achieved over 25,000 reads on ResearchGate.