Unleash Your Rhythm: Percussion Workshop with Dame Evelyn Glennie! Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of percussion with the legendary Dame Evelyn Glynnie. This in-person event will allow you to discover new rhythms, techniques, and unleash your creativity.
Evelyn Glennie: Sound Creator – coming September 2024
All my congratulations to Dr Georgina Hughes on her upcoming book publication “Evelyn Glennie: Sound Creator”. Here is a snippet from the publisher’s description:
A case study of a pioneering musician and an interdisciplinary appraisal of the larger social role of the artist.
Dame Evelyn Glennie (b.1965) is the world’s first full-time solo multipercussionist, a sound creator and expert listener whose work continues to expand and diversify the remit of the contemporary performer in the twenty-first century. This book presents the first comprehensive study of Glennie’s contribution to the evolution of an eclectic, experimental and fascinating instrumental discipline which wilfully eludes standardization.
Glennie’s sound journey also resonates in contexts extending beyond the discipline of music. She is a prominent female role model, an entrepreneur, a business and brand, a philanthropist and a profoundly deaf performer who has reframed discourse on what it means to truly listen. This book is both a case study of one pioneering musician and an interdisciplinary appraisal of the larger social role of the artist. An important reference source for percussionists, it is also intended to serve as a means of allowing the interested reader to engage with a medium that has become the heartbeat of contemporary culture.
Release date: September 2024
To pre-order, visit the following link and use code BB135 for 35% off through Boydell & Brewer’s website: https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650675/evelyn-glennie-sound-creator/
More Than Simply Drums & Cymbals…
The wonderful Volunteer team for The Evelyn Glennie Collection have been working incredibly hard to bring this booklet together and we are delighted to be able to share it with you now. ‘More Than Simply Drums & Cymbals’ takes you on a journey through the extraordinary assortment of artefacts which form The Evelyn Glennie Collection, and charts the introduction and subsequent development of percussion as a solo instrument across the globe.
Out now: Capt’s Look
One of my favourite forms of performance is improvisation. The recently released ‘Capt’s Look’ is taken from a live performance in Novi Sad, Serbia in October 2022 as part of the European Capital of Culture programme, with the extraordinarily talented Szilárd Mezei and his Polar Quartet. It is available directly from my shop if you would like a physical copy: … Read More
Volunteer Social Gathering Day
What a pleasure to host our first Volunteer Social Gathering with my wonderful Volunteer Team from #TheEvelynGlennieCollection earlier this week. The skill and dedication of each and every person has brought this collection to an amazingly exciting point. I’m so grateful to each and every one of them for all their time, energy and enthusiasm. Volunteers really do move mountains! … Read More
Out Now: RESONATE
“THE SOUNDS TRULY DO RESONATE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE BODY AND TOTALLY ENGULFS YOUR VERY BEING! THEY ARE SO UNUSUAL AND PRESENT WHEREBY THERE IS NO OPTION BUT TO LISTEN TO THE WHOLE RESONANCE OF EACH SOUND” — DAME EVELYN GLENNIE CINEMATIC PERCUSSION, IMPOSSIBLE AFTERSHOCKS For years, half the magic of sound has been disregarded. Films and trailers have delivered gigantic … Read More
Out of the Silence by John McLeod, CD Review: The Herald
Out of the Silence – RSNO/John McLeod/Dame Evelyn Glennie. CD review: The Herald by Keith Bruce. THIS is without doubt a major release in terms of contemporary Scottish orchestral music, yet there is a sense of our national orchestra playing catch-up. It is the Scottish Chamber Orchestra that will premiere McLeod’s new viola concerto, Nordic Fire, in October, and the … Read More
CD REVIEW: Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’
CD/Album review by Adrian Pallant: London Jazz News A markedly atypical debut trio album with a disciplined and almost industrial approach to rhythm, Trio HLK’s Standard Time declares a mission to ‘deconstruct classic tunes and rework them using contemporary classical compositional techniques’. The acronym stems from the surnames of pianist/keyboardist Richard Harrold, 8-string guitarist Ant Law and drummer Richard Kass; … Read More
Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’ album, CD review.
Trio HLK with Steve Lehman and Dame Evelyn Glennie – ‘Standard Time’ album. CD review by Adrian Pallant: London Jazz News A markedly atypical debut trio album with a disciplined and almost industrial approach to rhythm, Trio HLK’s Standard Time declares a mission to ‘deconstruct classic tunes and rework them using contemporary classical compositional techniques’. The acronym stems from the … Read More