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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.
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 »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
Evelyn Glennie’s Percussion | CANCELLED
This event has now been cancelled. Conductor | Alexander Shelley Percussion | Evelyn Glennie From its exhilarating opening notes, Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 3 cemented his reputation as one of the three great Bs of music, alongside J.S. Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Deeply romantic and lyrical, Brahms’s third symphony illustrates his mastery of both tradition and innovation. Listen for the subtle nod to Canada’s national anthem in Launch!, a brief, sparkling fanfare from JUNO Award-winning composer Vivian Fung. Swirling woodwinds, strings, and…
Find out more »Concert in Taipei – Cancelled
More information to follow soon.
Find out more »May 2020
St David’s Wales with Trio HLK – CANCELLED
The world’s foremost solo percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, will perform a jazz-inspired concert in collaboration with the Scottish ensemble, Trio HLK. The union of three distinct, forward thinking musical personalities Trio HLK playing with Evelyn Glennie is “a class all of its own: Trio HLK’s collaboration with percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie was an intense combination of complex musical ideas and virtuoso musicianship.”-Tony Benjamin, Jazzwise.
Find out more »July 2020
Timber Festival | Evelyn Glennie – CANCELLED
Timber is a joint venture between the National Forest Company and Wild Rumpus, who have come together to create an international festival exploring the transformative impact of forests. For more information about this event, visit here.
Find out more »October 2020
Evelyn Glennie and the World Doctors Orchestra – POSTPONED
Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the World Doctors Orchestra in celebrating 70 years of the NHS. In their first visit to the UK, the WDO join forces with a massed NHS choir in what will be a historic showcase event. Featuring Joseph Schwantner’s thrilling percussion concerto and Karl Jenkins’ eternally popular mass for peace ‘The Armed Man’, we present a celebration of global collaboration and living composers in aid of Pathway UK, a charity supporting health services for the homeless and…
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