Dame Evelyn Glennie

Saturday 27 September, 19:30

Gardner Memorial Church

Tickets (see bottom of page)

Evelyn Glennie is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today she is constantly redefining the goals and expectations of percussion, creating performances of such vitality that they almost constitute a new type of performance.
Giving more than 100 concerts and recitals a year worldwide, Evelyn performs with the world’s greatest composers and orchestras. Her collaborations have involved such diverse artists as Nana Vasoncelos, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Sting and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Evelyn has commissioned 150 new works for solo percussion from many of the world’s most eminent composers and also composes and records music for film and television. She won a Grammy for her first CD, while her first drama score was so original she was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 1993 she was awarded the OBE (Officer of the British Empire). This was extended in 2007 to ‘Dame Commander’ for her services to music, and to date she has received over 80 international awards.

Evelyn is constantly exploring other areas of creativity. Her astonishing range of activities include writing a best-selling autobiography, Good Vibrations, collaborating on the film Touch the Sound, presenting two series of her own television programmes for the BBC titled 'Soundbites' and designing her own range of jewellery. She is also a political lobbyist, public speaker and teacher as well as a concert performer of the great Highland bagpipes.

Visit Evelyn's homepage here and myspace here

This event is very kindly sponsored by The Malcolm Group

Tickets £35 (concert only)

 £40 (concert plus masterclass*)
 

*Price include attending the masterclass as an spectator