Devizes Arts Festival mesmerised by Evelyn Glennie. Concert review by Gail Foster for the Wiltshire Gazette & Herald. Dame Evelyn Glennie is talking to me about listening. Devizes Arts Festival have brought some quality acts to Devizes over the years, but to me this really takes the biscuit. Before I came out I listened to her leading a thousand drummers … Read More
Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – 13 May 2018
Trio HLK and Evelyn Glennie, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh – 13 May 2018, Concert review. (Photo credits: Adam Bulley.) By F Mactaggart for Scottish Jazz Space, May 16, 2018. The sense of excitement is palpable as Scottish Trio HLK arrive briskly on stage at 8pm sharp, and persists undimmed until they take their modest final bows to the thrilled home crowd … Read More
Trio HLK with Evelyn Glennie, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Concert review: The Scotsman.
Trio HLK with Evelyn Glennie, Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. Concert Review by Jim Gilchrist: The Scotsman 18th May 2018 AN UNSUSPECTING fragment from one of Bach’s cello suites mustn’t have known what hit it, as Trio HLK, joined by percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie, hijacked it amid a melee of heavy-metal intensity. With Glennie’s vibraphone ringing and Ant Law’s eight-stringed guitar … Read More
Echoes From the Birdcage: World Premiere at The Platform Theatre | Review: Keith Ames
I attended a superb performance this evening of Echoes from the Birdcage, ate The Platform Theatre, Handyside Street, King’s Cross, which tells the story of the area – best known as a transport hub – in six movements composed by Jill Jarman. This was exquisitely presented by world-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie – the area’s Musician in Residence for the … Read More
AD INFINITUM: World Premiere at the Cabrillo Festival | Review: San Francisco Classical Voice
I admit that I thought it was absurd to see an American Sign Language translator take the stage at Friday’s opening Cabrillo Festival concert to translate the composers’ and conductor’s remarks. You’d think the sense of hearing would be a prerequisite for anyone wishing to attend the symphony — why go and stare at an unheard orchestra for two hours? Boy, did … Read More
Recital at Lichfield Festival 2017 | UK Review: Lichfield Live
The award-winning, world class percussionist Evelyn Glennie and the pianist Philip Smith played a set of complicated music from around the world when they appeared at Lichfield Cathedral as part of the 2017 Lichfield Festival. A large audience was in held in rapt attention as the Scottish musician moved around a stage that was heavily festooned with instruments that could … Read More
Anniversary Concert with Bridge Chamber Orchestra | Europe Review: Berner Zeitung |
[…] Evelyn joined the ensemble to celebrate the piccolo concerto C major by Antonio Vivaldi in an arrangement for vibraphone and string orchestra. […] The baroque, playful sound sequences whirred, foamed and rattled, then again sounded as soft as the wing beat of a butterfly. Glennie sometimes strokes the metal plates of the percussion instrument and creates a sound experience of … Read More
Five World Premieres with Land’s End Ensemble | Review: Calgary Herald
This past Friday night was a truly special one for Calgary’s new music community and a milestone for the city’s arts community as a whole. Land’s End Ensemble hosted internationally-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie its 20th Anniversary Celebration at the Bella Concert Hall, Mount Royal University, in a wrap-up recital of epic proportions capping off the new hall’s exciting début … Read More
Percussion Concerto: Recreation – Grosses Orchester Graz | Europe Review: Backtrack
[…] Before the interval Jenifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto, which the American composer wrote in 2005, was performed by the virtuoso British soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Glennie seemed to merge with the instruments she played completely, moving with the calmness of a Zen master between the many various instruments, sticks and beating, impressively demonstrating that the percussion is neither loud nor … Read More
Recital: Bristol Live Music | UK Review: 365 Bristol
Dame Evelyn Glennie took all of us on a journey of vibrating sound through her amazing performance with a variety of instruments in her most recent concert at St George’s in Bristol. Her way of creating overwhelming sound flows so naturally that you barely notice how she goes from disruptive and tempestuous to melodic and relaxing. Glennie uses the drumsticks … Read More