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February 2020
Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie
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
Find out more »Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie
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.
Find out more »Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie
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.
Find out more »Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie
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.
Find out more »Concerts in Austria
Join Evelyn on the 24th and 25th of February 2020 for concerts in Austria. Performing Tan Dun’s Water Concerto. Fire is provided by Richard Wagner (among others) with the finale from his Walküre. Keeping the elements in balance, Mei-Ann Chen on the podium. Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 59 in A major, “Fire” Richard Wagner: Wotans farewell and fire music, from “The Valkyrie” Johannes Brahms: Hungarioan Danve No. 5 in C major (arr. Parlow) Tan Dun: Water Concerto for water percussion…
Find out more »March 2020
Trio HLK and Dame Evelyn Glennie: Chiltern Arts Festival
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. Ticket information available here: https://chilternarts.com/event/evelyn-glennie-trio-hlk-henley/
Find out more »Dame Evelyn Glennie In Conversation with Katy Hamilton
At 6:30pm on the 4th of March 2020, join Evelyn for an in-conversation event with meditator Katy Hamilton. For ticket information, please visit here. Dame Evelyn Glennie is the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. The Grammy award-winning percussionist, profoundly deaf from the age of 12 and who has honed her awareness of sound to such a degree that she describes…
Find out more »Candlelit Lute: Matthew Wadsworth & Dame Evelyn Glennie
Including music from Dowland, Philip Rosseter and Robert Johnson, Matthew Wadsworth offers a haven from the hustle and bustle of everyday life with an intimate solo programme. He is joined by Dame Evelyn Glennie as the two musicians present the world premiere of a new Chiltern Arts commission for theorbo and marimba by Stephen Goss – the same composer who worked with Matthew to write the first-ever Theorbo Concerto. The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk. Tickets available separately.
Find out more »April 2020
Surround Sound Music Festival – A Conversation with Evelyn Glennie | CANCELLED
This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19.
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