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American cellist who also plays guitar. Curtis is a Professor of Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California, San Diego since 2000.
ALBUMS
Curtis*, Licht*, Roberts*
Live In Bremen
2023, Cass, Album, Blank Forms Editions
Curtis*, Licht*, Roberts*
May 99
2023, Vinyl, 
,
, Drone/Noise/Industrial/Ambient
Terry Jennings, La Monte Young, Charles Curtis
Piece For Cello And Saxophone
2022
Charles Curtis
Performances & Recordings 1998-2018
2020
Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman - Charles Curtis, Anthony Burr
Chamber Music
2019, CD, Album, Important Records (2)
Morton Feldman - Anthony Burr, Graeme Jennings, Gascia Ouzounian, Che-Yen Chen, Charles Curtis
Clarinet And String Quartet
2015, CD, Ltd, Saltern, ,
, Contemporary
Allen Anderson (3) - Macomber*, Curtis*, Karis*, Russell*, Rasa Saxophone Quartet, Warburton*, Empyrean Ensemble
An Opportunity For Mischief
2013, CD, Album, Albany Records, ,
, Contemporary
Bach*, Charles Curtis
Bach: An Imaginary Dance
2012, CD, Album, eOne
Éliane Radigue* Pour Charles Curtis
Naldjorlak
2008
Alvin Lucier / Anthony Burr / Charles Curtis
Alvin Lucier
2005, 2xCD, Antiopic, Sigma Editions
Charles Curtis / Charles Curtis Trio
Ultra White Violet Light / Sleep
1997, 2x Vinyl, 
,
, Minimal/Experimental/Ambient
Robert Erickson - Camera Lucida
Duo, Fives, Quintet, Trio
2019, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
, Contemporary
King Missile III*
Failure
1998, CD, Album, Shimmy Disc, The Knitting Factory, ,
, Alternative Rock
Charles Curtis Trio
Music For Awhile
2002, CD, Mini, Beau Rivage
The Donald Miller Trio
Here Below
1998, LP, Ltd, Num, Klang Industries
King Missile
Five From Failure - King Missile III (Sampler)
1998, CD, Promo, Smplr, Shimmy Disc
Charles Curtis Trio
Lesser Writings
1997, CD, Strange Ways Records, ,
, Acoustic/Downtempo/Experimental
King Missile
They / Fluting On The Hump
1988, Cass, Comp, Shimmy Disc
King Missile
They
1988, Vinyl, ,
, Alternative Rock
APPEARANCES +
Alvin Lucier
One Arm Bandits
2023, CD, Album, Important Records (2)
La Monte Young
Trio For Strings
2021
Alvin Lucier
Orpheus Variations
2019, CD, Album, Important Records (2)
Cassandra Miller
O Zomer!
2018, CD, Album, Another Timbre
Alvin Lucier
So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
2018, CD, Album, Black Truffle
The Black Heart Procession
The Waiter Chapters I-VIII
2017, Vinyl Clear, ,
, Indie Rock
Alvin Lucier
Illuminated By The Moon
2017
High Mountain Tempel
Gnosis
2014, CD, Album, Lotushouse Records, ,
, Psychedelic Rock/Noise
Ming Tsao - Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Ascolta, ensemble recherche, Ensemble SurPlus
Pathology Of Syntax
2014, CD, Album, Mode
Tashi Wada
Duets
2014
Alvin Lucier
No Ideas But In Things
2013, DVD-V, NTSC, WERGO, ,
, Experimental
Gunther’s Grass
Never In The Future That Dawned Earlier On
2013, 6xFile, MP3, Album, 320, Titicacaman Records
Éliane Radigue*
Naldjorlak I II III
2013, 3x CD, 
,
, Contemporary/Minimal/Drone
Alvin Lucier
Orchestra Works
2013
Alvin Lucier
Almost New York
2011, 2xCD, Album, Pogus Productions
Eliane Radigue
L'Écoute Virtuose / Virtuoso Listening
2011, DVD, La Huit, ,
, Drone/Interview
Ilya Monosov
Collected Works Of
2011, Vinyl, ,
, Experimental
Pauline Oliveros / Eliane Radigue / Yoshi Wada / Sun Circle
Attention Patterns
2010
David Evan Jones
From Sofia To Seoul / New Chamber Music
2009, CD, Centaur Records
Various
The Harmonic Series (A Compilation Of Musical Works In Just Intonation)
2009, CD, ,
, Drone/Experimental/Ambient/Contemporary
Sting
If On A Winter's Night...
2009, CD Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve, 
,
, Acoustic/Medieval/Folk/Romantic/Holiday
Robert Sadin
Art Of Love: Music Of Machaut
2009, CD Boxed Press Kit, ,
, Neo-Classical/Medieval
Monosov Swirnoff
Five Recorded Works
2006, LP, Ltd, Eclipse Records (3)
UC San Diego Music
Sound Check One
2005, CD, Album, UC San Diego Department of Music, ,
, Experimental/Modern Classical
Michael J. Schumacher*
Stories
2004, CD, Album, Quecksilber
Morton Feldman
Patterns In A Chromatic Field
2004, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
, Contemporary/Minimal
Liz Janes
Poison & Snakes
2004, CD, Album, Asthmatic Kitty Records, ,
, Neofolk/Art Rock
The Black Heart Procession
The Tropics Of Love
2004, DVD, Touch And Go, ,
, Indie Rock
Ilya Monosov
Solo Cello #1 For Charles Curtis
2004, CD, Album, Eclipse Records (3)
Michael J. Schumacher*
Room Pieces
2003, 2xCD, Album, XI Records
Wayne Shorter
Alegría
2003
Eddie Higgins With Strings
Moonlight Becomes You
2003
Various
Minima~list
2002, CD, Comp, List, ,
, Minimal
Katrin Achinger
Jump (Without A Warning)
2002, CD, Album, Normal, ,
, Indie Rock
Michael J. Schumacher*
Four Stills
2002, CD, Album, Sedimental
The Black Heart Procession
Amore Del Tropico
2002
Dogbowl
Best Of Dogbowl - Volume II
2001, CD, Comp, Dig, 62 TV Records
Patrice
Ancient Spirit
2000, CD, ,
, Dub/Reggae-Pop/Reggae
Dean Roberts
And The Black Moths Play The Grand Cinema
1999
M. Arfmann* Presents Turtle Bay Country Club
Turtle Bay Country Club
1999, 2x Vinyl, ,
, Breakbeat/Dub
Katrin Achinger
Talking Mother Nature
1998, 7", Ltd, Ora, 17,71, Disko Grönland, ,
, Alternative Rock
Various
Great Jewish Music: Marc Bolan
1998, CD, Album, Tzadik, ,
, Art Rock/Avantgarde/Glam
Herbie Hancock
Gershwin's World
1998, CD PMDC, ,
, Modal/Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Cool Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz
Jullander
Jullander
1997, 7", EP, Ltd, Beau Rivage, ,
, Post Rock/Indie Rock
Leila Josefowicz
Violin For Anne Rice
1997, CD, Comp, Philips
Kathleen Battle, Robert Sadin
Grace
1997
Beethoven*, Bach*, Nigel Kennedy, Sinfonie-Orchester des NDR*, Klaus Tennstedt
Violin Concerto
1992
Shawn Colvin
Steady On
1989, Vinyl, ,
, Country Rock/Pop Rock
Dogbowl
Tit! (An Opera)
1989, Vinyl, ,
, Lo-Fi/Indie Rock/Experimental
Bongwater
Double Bummer +
1989, 2x CD, Box Set, ,
, Art Rock/Parody/Punk/Glam
Jack Coleman
The Boy Who Caught The Fish (A Folk Musical For Junior Choir)
1972, LP, Album, Light Records
Richard Strauss, Ernö Dohnányi*, New Jersey Chamber Music Society
Piano Quartet, Op. 13 / Sextet, Op. 37
CD, Pantheon (7)
Various
For Lampo
2018, 40xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Lampo, 
,
, Experimental/Musique Concrète/Abstract/Sound Collage/Avantgarde/Free Improvisation/Ambient/Noise
Various
Sound Art : Beyond Music, Between Categories
2007, CD, Comp, Rizzoli, ,
, Field Recording/Drone/Experimental/Ambient/Sound Art
Various
Music Overheard
2006, 2xCD, Album, Comp, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, ,
, Experimental/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Field Recording/Musique Concrète
Various
Familienangelegenheiten #2
1998, CD, Comp, Supermodern
Sting
If On A Winter's Night...
2009
La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela
Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord (2002-2003)
2006
La Monte Young
The Theatre Of Eternal Music String Ensemble
2xCDr, Unofficial, Otherside Recordings (2)