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Scott Currie: Biography
Baritone saxophonist Scott Currie is the founder and president of the Sound Vision Orchestra. His Dark Matter quintet -- featuring saxophonist Harri Sjoestroem, pianist Michael Walz, bassist Klaus Janek, and drummer Willi Kellers -- recently played in Germany at a concert organized in WAATI by the Freie Initiative Improvisation Berlin. He has performed on saxophones and flute in Berlin at the Jazzkeller Treptow and Kulturhaus Mitte, as well as in New York -- at the Vision Festival, Knitting Factory, Roulette, and Context Studios -- in ensembles under the direction of Cecil Taylor, Bill Dixon, J. D. Parran, Alan Silva, Karen Borca, and Warren Smith. He has also played various woodwind, string, and percussion instruments in Balinese, Near-East, Balkan, Andean, Brazilian, and Afro-Caribbean groups. He has studied woodwind technique and improvisational conception with J.D. Parran, Hamiet Bluiett, Ken McIntyre, Warren Smith, and Bud Revels, and is now teaching at the Eastman School of Music while completing a doctoral dissertation at New York University on improvised music in New York and Berlin.Thanks to Peter Gannushkin for the great photo! You can check out more of his photos of me performing at the 2003 Vision Festival at: www.downtownmusic.net
Updated on Dec 08 ’03