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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