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Evelyn Glennie is a British musician and composer.
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Evelyn was born in Aberdeen in Scotland.
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From the age of eight, she started to lose her hearing
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and she's been profoundly deaf since the age of 12.
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Evelyn was learning the piano, but at 12,
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she decided she wanted to take up percussion,
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the first step in her journey to becoming the world's premier
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solo percussionist? Well to be a solo percussionist of course you need repertoire to play and there
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was very little repertoire for solo percussion so my main focus had to be targeting the composers
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and asking them to write pieces of music otherwise there was not enough repertoire to sustain the
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career of a solo percussionist and so that really was my main task but I think a lot of people
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couldn't quite visualize what a solo percussionist could be so to bring
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percussion from the back of the orchestra to the front of the orchestra
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that took a little while for people to really think about and to visualize but
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for me it was very very clear in my mind but getting the repertoire was
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absolutely key with this in mind Evelyn has commissioned over 200 new works for
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solo percussion. She performs these and other older works across the world, either solo
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or with other musicians and orchestras. She often performs barefoot in order to feel the
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music better. Although her training was in classical music, Evelyn has also collaborated
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with a diverse range of other musicians, including the Icelandic singer Bjork and the British
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rock guitarist Mark Knopfler. Throughout her career, Evelyn has collected percussion
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instruments from various countries and cultures, and some from closer to home, like this thunder
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sheet that Evelyn picked up from a nearby building site. In fact, she has so many that
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she can't store them all in her home studio.
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Well, my collection of percussion instruments is around 2,000, bearing in mind that many
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those instruments are quite small so they can be handheld and then of course we have much larger
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instruments such as the marimba the vibraphone timpani drum kit gamelan lots of different things
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like that and each instrument is unique it's almost like asking what is your favorite child
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and that's impossible you know so each instrument has a story um you know each instrument just has
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its own unique sound world and really, again, whichever instrument is in front of me, that's
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my favourite.
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These instruments are not for show. Evelyn plays all the instruments in her collection
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and has recorded over 30 albums. She also composes music for percussion herself, both
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for classical performance and for the theatre for film and tv and for advertising
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i do compose music and most of my compositions are related to media purposes so for films for
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radio television and so on and that aspect i really love because i can use a lot of the more
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unusual instruments in my collection and the thing about writing to what is mainly a picture so it
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could be that you're writing for a a detective drama series or a car advert or a milk advert
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or something is that you have that visual aid and it can just be a sound a mood that you're creating
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that will make the difference in what you see
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and ultimately how engaged you become
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with that drama or advert or product.
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So it's a really different type of composition
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as opposed to writing for the concert platform.
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So I very much enjoy that with the types of tools
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that I have at my disposal.
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Given the number of instruments she owns
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and the variety of instruments and things she plays,
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what instrument would she recommend to a beginner?
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To advise someone as to which instrument would be good to start with,
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I think it depends on many aspects.
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The space they have, whether they're close to neighbours and so on.
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And obviously I'm referring to percussion.
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But I think it's important to find an instrument
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whereby all four limbs, your two arms, two legs, can participate in
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so that the body is completely balanced.
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- Fecha:
- 20 de octubre de 2026 - 19:35
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