Recital: BBC Proms Chamber Music 2015 |UK Review: Daily Telegraph

Entering Cadogan Hall for Evelyn Glennie’s performance, audience members were offered earplugs. This playfully reinforced a stereotype: percussion instruments are all noise, incapable of the subtlety that should be left to more traditional melodic instruments. Think again. In a concert to celebrate her 50th birthday, Dame Evelyn Glennie demonstrated the expressive range of various percussion instruments, one of which had … Read More

A Glimpse Into Evelyn’s Life

It has been quite a feat putting Evelyn’s Timeline together, considering all the achievements we had to choose from, but in the end we believe we’ve managed to find a nice balance between accomplishments and interesting facts about Evelyn. And (pardon the lack of modesty) it’s great to look at, with a fine selection of photos from the archives. We … Read More

Making Composition Accessible to Everyone

We have a new product in our shop, one that we are very proud of. Compose Yourself is a fantastic game that already has both children and adults excited. Created by Philip Sheppard and featuring Evelyn Glennie on marimba, Compose Yourself is a tool for learning composition that can help at a time when musical education is facing problems. In … Read More

Behind the Scenes at the Polar Music Prize

Wow… what a whirlwind! Two jam-packed days dedicated to music, a journey that I’m ecstatic to have shared with my mum, Isobel, and my first childhood percussion teacher, Ron Forbes. Here’s a sneaky glimpse at what was happening behind the scenes, including some official photos and some candid snaps courtesy of my team. I hope you enjoy them! With mum ... Read More

Recital: Bury St Edmunds | UK Review: Bury Free Press

This concert by Dame Evelyn Glennie was not for the faint hearted. The pieces were created and performed with the aim of their audience engaging in a full listening experience. Glennie’s artistry on the wide range of percussion instruments was sparkling as was the piano work by Philip Smith who has been the regular pianist for Dame Evelyn for two … Read More

Jill Jarman: ‘Mindstream’ (& other works) | Europe Review: Dagens Nyheter

(Translated from Swedish) [Hugo Ticciati’s] festival O/Modernt at Confidencen […] spun off in a chamber music series [where] one does not choose between either contemporary or classical music. Instead, they entwine the program showing how they are interrelated, from Pérotin’s Gregorian singing with organ […] to modern minimalism. […] In Áskell Másson’s “Prim” […] the outstanding Evelyn Glennie showed how to get a … Read More

John Corigliano: ‘The Conjurer’ | North America Review: San Antonio Express-News

In perhaps the most unusual piece of the season, percussionist Evelyn Glennie performed John Corigliano’s “Conjurer: Concerto for Percussion” on an array of instruments crossing the entire length of the stage. By one count, Glennie played 33 instruments, or types of instruments, some in multiples and often more than one at a time. […] Although the strings-only orchestra came in … Read More

Guest Blog: What is Art?

Due to a truly hectic schedule, I’ve not had chance to update my blog. And, believe me, there’s been so much that I’ve been wanting to share! This will be a collaborative blog post connected to a very interesting project that I’m very fortunate to be involved with. Written by Rebecca Boyle Suh, Executive Chairman for Artis, this is the … Read More

Áskell Másson: ‘Konzertstücke’ & Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Marimba | UK Review: Henley Herald

Henley Symphony Orchestra’s spring concert at The Hexagon in Reading last Sunday offered the prospect of a rare encounter with the world’s pre-eminent percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, under HSO’s latest guest conductor, Jacques Cohen. Neither disappointed in an enticing amalgam of the unknown and the familiar, including Konzertstück for Snare Drum and Orchestra by Áskell Másson, Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra by Eric … Read More