“Nobody plays like Glennie”
Bachtrack
“Her agile performance makes her fascinating to watch”
Shropshire Star
“She took a drum and made it come alive with drumsticks that appeared bewitched”
Guardian
“Glennie played with all her admired articulacy and athletic sense of theatre”
News Tribune
“Glennie moved through the work’s kaleidoscope of emotions like a dancer”
New York Times
“Quite simply a phenomenon of a performer”
Irish News
“Evelyn Glennie astounded her audience”
Anders Koppel: Concerto for Aluphone, Marimba & Orchestra | North America Review: Nuvo
An unexpected highlight of this program was the U.S. debut of a new percussion instrument, the aluphone, a series of aluminum bells of varying sizes and pitches on a stand six to eight feet in length. […] Anders Koppel‘s […] Concerto for Aluphone [is] a three movement work which also included a marimba, presumably added for more tonal variety. Both were played by … Read More
Sean O’Boyle: ‘Portraits of Immortal Love’ | North America Review: The News Tribune
Petite, with bubbly friendliness and bright red socks (profoundly deaf since childhood, the percussionist hears vibrations through her entire body, including feet onstage), Glennie swept through O’Boyle’s concerto like a graceful whirlwind. From the circular bell melody of the opening over a shimmery string cushion, through the unbelievably fast bell part in the jig, to thundering bass drum and scarily … Read More
New York Sun
“Evelyn Glennie puts on a heckuva show”