Evelyn Glennie

Playing music without being able to listen it. Perceiving the notes from vibrations. Not just Beethoven, but Evelyn Glennie too: the Scottish percussionist remained deaf at an early age due to a progressive loss of an auditory nerve.

Program

Nebojša Jovan Živković
Ilijas, for marimba solo

Evelyn Glennie
Waterphone improvisation

Evelyn Glennie / Philip Sheppard
Orologeria Aureola

Áskell Másson
Kim, for snare drum solo

James Tenney
Never Having Written a Note for Percussion

Jacob ter Veldhuis
Barracuda Solo

Interval

Astor Piazzolla
Libertango

Áskell Másson
Prim, for snare drum solo

Steve Reich
Clapping music

Vincent Ho
Nostalgia

Leigh Howard Stevens
Rythmic Caprice

EVELYN GLENNIE

Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in spite of being deaf since childhood, she is able to hear music by observing and perceiving sound vibrations. She studied piano and percussion and at nineteen she graduated cum laude from the Royal Academy of Music of London. She has performed with numerous international orchestras and musicians such as Björk, Sting, Bobby McFerrin and Steve Hackett. She performed at the opening ceremonies of the XXX Summer Olympics in London in 2012, and with more than thirty recordings to her name she has won three Grammy Awards. She was the protagonist of the documentary Touch the Sound (2004) directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer.  In 2007 she was awarded the title of Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.