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Evelyn joins Trio HLK for a performance in Ramsgate. This unique collaboration concert sees pioneering Scottish ensemble Trio HLK team up with the world’s premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie. HLK’s music heavily deconstructs and reconstructs jazz standards, creating intricate new pieces with complex frameworks for improvisation. Their pieces are strewn with rhythmic and harmonic tricks, and their performances deliver an explosive interactive tour de force that distorts the meeting point of the composed and the improvised. “Their deconstruction of…

Evelyn joins a fantastic line-up for Trestle Records ongoing One Day Band series and to mark the release of One Day Band compilation volume 1 on vinyl and download. The One Day Band sessions are an ongoing programme of recorded improvisations hosted by Trestle Records. This will be the first time that the session has left the studio to be recorded live in front of an audience. The idea is to facilitate an environment for musicians to meet and collaborate with…

Evelyn joins Trio HLK for a performance in Rottingdean. This unique collaboration concert sees pioneering Scottish ensemble Trio HLK team up with the world’s premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie. HLK’s music heavily deconstructs and reconstructs jazz standards, creating intricate new pieces with complex frameworks for improvisation. Their pieces are strewn with rhythmic and harmonic tricks, and their performances deliver an explosive interactive tour de force that distorts the meeting point of the composed and the improvised. “Their deconstruction of…

Hugo Ticciati and his Sweden-based chamber orchestra O/Modernt present two works reflecting on motherhood, alongside solo compositions written and performed by world-renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Schoenberg’s wondrous early Verklärte Nacht, based on a poem by Richard Dehmel, wordlessly resolves the crisis of a pregnant woman into a paen to the transformative power of love. Lera Auerbach’s Dialogues with Stabat Mater enters into dialogue with Pergolesi’s Baroque masterpiece, reimagining it as instrumental reflections on the universal image of the grieving mother.   Grab your tickets here

Great St Mary’s Church – 7.30pm until 8.40pm A special concert will be held in Great St Mary’s Church, where We Are Sound and Evelyn Glennie will be performing a selection of uplifting songs in celebration of the children and families ​EACH cares for. The concert will last approximately an hour and ten minutes, and will include a short interval to hear from keynote speakers (five minutes each).   Purchase tickets here

Pioneering solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie plays with Trio HLK. The Scottish improvising ensemble comprises Richard Harrold (piano and composer), Ant Law (guitar) and Richard Kass (drums). Their music pulls apart jazz standards into fragments that are at times shimmering and cerebral, at others thunderous and visceral. Intricate and harmonious rhythms meet with a veritable battery of percussion instruments played by Glennie to deliver a performance that is an interactive tour de force. For ticket information, please visit here

Pioneering solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie plays with Trio HLK. The Scottish improvising ensemble comprises Richard Harrold (piano and composer), Ant Law (guitar) and Richard Kass (drums). Their music pulls apart jazz standards into fragments that are at times shimmering and cerebral, at others thunderous and visceral. Intricate and harmonious rhythms meet with a veritable battery of percussion instruments played by Glennie to deliver a performance that is an interactive tour de force.