Colin Currie Group will perform Reich’s Tehillim during the 2016/17 season at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall on 1 and 2 March 2017, and at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, London, on 5 May. For all three concerts the group is joined by Synergy Vocals.

The concerts mark an important new piece of repertoire; the Tokyo concerts will be the first time the group has performed Tehillim. Reich composed the piece in 1981 for six percussionists, four women’s voices, woodwinds, electric organs and strings. A setting of four Hebrew Psalm texts, the London performance will be part of the Southbank Centre’s Belief and Beyond Belief festival exploring religion, community and worship.

It also marks the group’s return to Japan, following their debut there in December 2012.