Chuck Currie
“Jody Espina has come through as expected, reviving the incredible designs of Dr. Eugene Rousseau. The warm, glowing, luminous sound of Dr. Rousseau emanates gloriously from these wonderful mouthpieces.”
Biography:
Chuck Currie performs with the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Victoria, the Commodores Big Band, Victoria On Stage, Pacific Clarion, and the Bass Clarinet Choir of l’Association Canadienne de Clarinette Basse. He is the founder of the Celestial Saxophone Orchestra. 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, Clarinet and Low Woodwind Coach of the BC Honour Wind Ensemble, and a clinician for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the BC Music Teachers Association. He is the Educational Liaison for the Meridiem Wind Orchestra, leading the School Clinic and Coaching Program, and the annual Youth Soloist Competition.
Chuck Currie was inducted as a Canadian Champion for Music Education in 2010.
Mr. Currie is a Backun Clarinet, Yanagisawa Saxophone, Vandoren reeds, Légère reeds, and Chedeville-JodyJazz-Rousseau Mouthpiece artist-endorser.
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 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.”
He teaches at his Sax Noir Studio and was the saxophone and clarinet instructor for St Georges School for 20 years. Students have auditioned successfully for the Canadian Wind Orchestra, International Honors Wind Symphony at Lincoln Center, National Youth Band of Canada, Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra, British Columbia Honour Orchestra, UBC School of Music, Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony, and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Currie’s articles on pedagogy and instruments have been published by Saxophone Journal, The BC Band Journal, Canadian Winds Magazine, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine, and The British Columbia Music Educator.
Artists Favourite Mouthpieces
Classic RC3 Soprano, Classic RC3 Alto, Classic RC3 Tenor, Classic RC3 Baritone
This new round chamber design that honours Dr. Rousseau’s legacy adds a mouthpiece series that produces the richest, warmest, darkest sound of any mouthpiece ever made.
In addition to the rich, warm, dark tone, register leaps and articulation are a dream, and these ‘pieces are very reed friendly, indeed.
Best of all, our princess and queen, the soprano and alto saxophones, exhibit that burnished warm golden glow so characteristic of Doctor Rousseau.
The RC mouthpieces for our prince and king, the tenor and baritone saxophones, add brawny commanding authority to that focused warm rich tone. They can also play at a whisper with that same robust core.
The upper registers of the tenor and baritone have never been so centred, sweet and rich before.
That is combination that is very difficult to achieve…. I thought I was there with my previous mouthpieces, but these blew them away.
It’s a new era for we lucky saxophonists.
