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May 2025
Echoes from the Birdcage
Experience the vibrant soundscape of London’s King’s Cross with Echoes from the Birdcage.
Find out more »June 2025
Fantasia & Evelyn Glennie – Proms at St Jude’s
Fantasia Orchestra returns to Proms at St Jude's, collaborating with the world's premier solo percussionist: Dame Evelyn Glennie. Always a highlight of Fantasia's season, this year's appearance at Proms at St Jude's opens the festival. At the centre of the programme are two percussion concertos - by Vivaldi (arranged for solo marimba) and Duddell. The second half features two highlights of the Romantic repertoire: Puccini's Crisantemi and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. Tchaikovsky's enduring piece is abundant in melody and drama, and culminates with…
Find out more »August 2025
Percussion Party: Peninsula Festival
Experience the extraordinary as the Peninsula Music Festival presents Percussion Party, an unforgettable evening showcasing the revolutionary talent of Dame Evelyn Glennie, the world’s first and foremost solo percussionist. Under the baton of Maestro Rune Bergmann, this remarkable program explores the power of rhythm, the depth of human expression, and the limitless possibilities of percussion, featuring works by Vincent Ho and Dmitri Shostakovich in a concert unlike any other.
Find out more »Evelyn Glennie joins Raymond Antrobus: The Quiet Ear booklaunch
Award-winning British-Jamaican writer Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of seven. He discovered he had missing sounds – bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive; some friends didn’t believe he was deaf at all.
The Quiet Ear tells the story of Antrobus’ childhood, his first experience using hearing aids, his troubled adolescence and the parallel mainstream and deaf education systems.
The world’s premier solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, also performs an evocative, improvised soundscape to accompany prose written and read live on stage by Antrobus. Together, they offer a unique, collaborative experience, where words and percussion merge to captivate the audience’s senses and emotions.
Find out more »September 2025
George Enescu International Festival – with O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra
Performers
O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra
Hugo Ticciati Conductor, Violin
Dame Evelyn Glennie Percussion
O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra and Evelyn Glennie
The International Concert Series launches with a journey through 850 years of music – guided by Hugo Ticciati and the remarkable Evelyn Glennie.
We begin at the beginning, with luminous spirituality from 12th-century visionary Hildegard of Bingen. We end with the insistent pulse of Philip Glass’s Third Symphony. And in between, we’re all over the map: in Estonia with Arvo Pärt (the classic Fratres), in Seattle with Nirvana, in Restoration England with Henry Purcell…
Find out more »Listen In with Dame Evelyn Glennie
Join us for an extraordinary evening this September as we welcome Dame Evelyn Glennie, the world’s premiere percussionist, accompanied by Bristol Ensemble, to explore these questions through a beautiful and immersive performance specially created for St George’s.
Find out more »October 2025
Evelyn Glennie and New Bristol Sinfonia in Concert
The New Bristol Sinfonia, under the baton of Thomas Blunt, invites you to an evening of dazzling orchestral music featuring the legendary Dame Evelyn Glennie – the world’s first full-time solo percussionist. Renowned for her extraordinary musicianship and trailblazing career, Dame Evelyn has transformed the perception of percussion in classical music, earning international acclaim for her expressive power and technical brilliance.
This thrilling concert features a rich and varied programme celebrating rhythm, emotion, and innovation.
Find out more »Evelyn Glennie & New London Chamber Ensemble: Sound Unbound (part of the Canterbury Festival)
Join world-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and the acclaimed NLCE wind quintet for a concert that pushes the boundaries of live performance.
Blending dazzling rhythmic complexity with moments of serene reflection, this unique collaboration invites you into an extraordinary sound world of shimmering vibraphones, exotic percussion, and expressive wind textures.
Find out more »The Space Between – Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
A landmark night for the SSO as we’re joined by Maestro Karl Hirzer and superstar percussion Dame Evelyn Glennie. Multi-Grammy winner, Dame Evelyn Glennie is the centrepiece of a night of mystical story telling with Ho’s From Darkness to Light and we bring light to the darkness with Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony.
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