Sebastian Currier

Academy Award in Music: Sebastian Currier

Sebastian Currier is a faculty member at Columbia University and Composer-in-Residence at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. He taught at The Juilliard School from 1992 to 1998. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Symphony Hall in Boston, the Kennedy Center in Washington, and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. He has received a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, several awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Friedheim Award, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Tanglewood, and has held residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddo colonies. Commissions include Fromm Foundation, Koussevitzky Foundation, Barlow Endowment, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and the American Composers Orchestra. Aftersong was written for the renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis, who performed it at the Salzburg Festival and throughout Europe and the United States. His music is published by Carl Fischer.