Career
When Dan Pinchbeck was developing his experimental video game Dear Esther he turned to his wife Curry to write a score. Thus Curry became the co-founder of The Chinese Room game studio. [1]
Following the success of that game, The Chinese Room went on to develop Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs which Curry describes as her first "journey into interactivity." [1]
While Amnesia was in production, The Chinese Room received an approach from Sony Computer Entertainment's Santa Monica Studio to develop an exclusive game for them. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture , which had originally been envisioned as a PC release, subsequently became a PlayStation 4 exclusive. [1] Curry describes Rapture as "the first time I would say that I wrote a truly interactive score". [1]
In October 2015 Curry announced via her blog on The Chinese Room's website that, while she would remain a company director, she was lessening her creative involvement with the studio. [2]
In April 2016, Curry won a BAFTA at the 12th British Academy Games Awards for her music on Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. [3]
In 2018, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to music, along with her efforts in the promotion of games and game music within arts and culture and her dedication to making the industry a better place to work, she was awarded the Outstanding Contribution award by MCV Women in Games [4] .
After her departure from The Chinese Room, Curry embarked on various other projects including a collaboration with poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy [1] which saw poems by Duffy performed to music by Curry and others at Durham Cathedral in July 2016 as part of a centenary remembrance of the Battle of the Somme. [5]
In October 2016 Curry's score to Dear Esther was performed live by a full orchestra at London's Barbican Centre to coincide with the release of the game for the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. [6] [7] [8]
In January 2017, it was announced that Curry would present High Score, Classic FM's six-episode series on video game music. [9] [10] In October 2017 it was announced that Curry's show was renewed for another six episodes, starting 4 November. [11]
Starting October 2019, Curry presented Sound of Gaming on BBC Radio 3, a weekly series on video game music. [12] [13]
In 2022 Curry's music rounded out the first ever Prom dedicated to games music [14] .
In June 2025, Curry released Shielding Songs, an album mostly made up of new versions of her favourite pieces featuring the London Voices choir. [15]
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