This show discusses music-making with Dame Evelyn Glennie. We discuss the nature of musicianship and how it feels to be music-making from the inside. Evelyn reflects on how journeys through sound and music are build around emotional bonds and narratives. She explains the importance of these and how they are communicated to commissioned composers and ensembles. She digs deep into how she perceives the flow of music-making, and how the visual and visceral aspects of percussion (e.g. the vibrating cymbal) becomes material for narrative building.
Dame Evelyn Glennie is the world’s premier solo percussionist. Her solo recordings exceed 40 CDs. A double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee, Evelyn composes for film, theatre and television. The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020. Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and has over 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize, the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. Evelyn is Curator for The Evelyn Glennie Collection. Her iconic film Touch the Sound, TED Talk and charity The Evelyn Glennie Foundation embody her life-long mission to Teach the World to Listen.
In the image above Evelyn can be seen to be holding a poster for a play entitled \"Playing from the Heart\". This was a played created by Polka Theatre for Children in 1998 about Evelyn's early childhood and her journey into music and deafness. For this play Craig Vear was commissioned to write the music and perform on stage as Evelyn's musical persona. Through this run they met, and have continued to remain in touch.
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