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April 2019
Gala Concert in Celebration of The Open University’s 50th Anniversary
Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto Catherine Rose: Conductor More information to follow.
Find out more »September 2019
‘Dreamachine’ with Sioux City Symphony Orchestra
Evelyn joins the orchestra in performing Michael Daugherty’s, DREAMACHINE. The Grammy Award winner is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. The program will conclude with the dazzling orchestral showpiece, SCHEHERAZADE.
Find out more »June 2022
Veni Veni Emmanuel with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC SSO
Thirty years ago Dame Evelyn Glennie premiered Sir James MacMillan’s Percussion Concerto, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. Here, she returns to that work, praised for its ‘instant accessibility’ and ‘exuberant physicality’ (The Telegraph) for a special anniversary performance.
Find out more »January 2023
April 2024
Stardust and Souls
Featuring two world premieres and a gem of the choral repertoire, we’re delighted to welcome back the inimitable Sofi Jeannin alongside the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Dame Evelyn Glennie and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Audience Prize winner Julieth Lozano Rolong for an evening of musical exploration and discovery. First a world premiere from Alexander Campkin and his Sounds of Stardust. Dame Evelyn Glennie, percussionist extraordinaire, takes to the stage for the world premiere of Dani Howard’s…
Find out more »August 2024
BBC Proms, Bristol Beacon 4: Evelyn Glennie plays Jennifer Higdon
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Bristol Beacon’s Orchestra in Residence – opens its concert with a little-known gem of Ukrainian music. Feodor Akimenko was born in Kharkiv in 1876, going on to teach Igor Stravinsky before writing his beautiful ‘Poème- Nocturne’ Angel in 1912. The BSO’s Ukrainian Chief Conductor (and Akimenko aficionado) Kirill Karabits conducts it here as a prelude to American composer Jennifer Higdon’s seriously flamboyant Percussion Concerto, played by Evelyn Glennie, and Tchaikovsky’s heart-on-sleeve Symphony No. 5. Knell by Iranian composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh offers a glance back to Akimenko’s Angel in its momentary, symbolic plea for peace.
Find out more »December 2024
Evelyn Glennie and Scheherazade
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra 2024/25 Season: Dame Evelyn Glennie joins Brighton Philharmonic for a dazzling programme, from the Scottish Highlands to fairy tales from Arabia.
We’re thrilled that one of Britain’s greatest and pioneering musicians, the extraordinary percussionist Evelyn Glennie, will be joining us to perform one of her signature pieces: James MacMillan’s Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, written as a tribute to her virtuosic flair and charismatic personality. Taking the Advent plainsong as the basis of the work, this is a tour de force and still packs the punch it had at its BBC Proms premiere twenty years ago. Now in the pantheon of contemporary classics, it still sounds wonderfully imaginative, rhythmically impulsive and vibrantly colourful, and will be an unforgettable experience.
Find out more »February 2025
Evelyn Glennie and O/Modernt
Monday 24 February 2025 at 8.30 pm
TEATRO AUDITORIUM MANZONI, Bologna, Italy
O/MODERNT SOLOISTS
EVELYN GLENNIE percussion
HUGO TICCIATI violin
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Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 8.00 pm
SOCIETÀ FILARMONICA TRENTO, Trento, Italy
O/MODERNT SOLOISTS
EVELYN GLENNIE percussion
HUGO TICCIATI violin
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