Evelyn Glennie - An Empress of Music

Welcome to a composer spotlight! Music is an important part of not only my life, but every one else's as well. I would like to share with you a composer and musician who has had a great impact on my life.

DAME EVELYN GLENNIE!

Evelyn Glennie is the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. She fondly recalls having played the first percussion concerto in the history of The Proms at the Albert Hall in 1992, which paved the way for orchestras around the world to feature percussion concerti. She had the honour of a leading role in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Evelyn regularly provides masterclasses and consultations designed to guide the next generation. With over 80 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize and the Companion of Honour, Evelyn is also a leading commissioner of new works for solo percussion, with more than 200 pieces to her name from many of the world’s most eminent composers. The film ‘Touch the Sound’ and her enlightening TED speech remain key testimonies to her approach to sound-creation.

To this day, Evelyn continues to invest in realising her vision – to Teach the World to Listen – while looking to open a centre that embodies her mission: “to improve communication and social cohesion by encouraging everyone to discover new ways of listening. We want to inspire, to create, to engage and to empower”.

As a composer, Evelyn writes and performs music for film, TV, radio, library companies and live performance. She regularly collaborates with other composers and has already worked with Fred Frith, David Motion, Terry Devine-King, MJ Cole, Ray Davies, Steve Hackett and Philip Sheppard. Evelyn’s unique style and the dizzying array of instruments in her personal collection make for an unforgettable sound.

Evelyn’s media credits include several multi-award winning films. This is very exciting to me because I am a student of film as well as music and would love to work more putting the 2 together.

A Dangerous Journey has been shown to governments around the world to highlight the humanitarian crisis of people trafficking.

Touch the Sound, which explores the nature of sound and its affect on our everyday lives, features Evelyn on-screen as well as on its soundtrack.

In one of my favorite recent projects, Evelyn joined celebrity of the technology world Paul Sonderegger as the star of this short film about Big Data. The on-screen conversation is accompanied by Evelyn’s newly composed soundtrack, co-written with Simon Lacey, which aims to mimic the structures and diversity of Big Data in a thrilling musical landscape.

Evelyn enjoys a long-standing relationship with Audio Network, one of the media industry’s fastest growing music library companies. Evelyn regularly works with a number of producers and co-composers to achieve a diverse portfolio suitable of the highest quality. This makes her compositions available to many different people and places around the world. Linked below is her audio network profile.

https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/composer/evelyn-glennie_28

Evelyn has composed many more works for a wide variety of instruments and I encourage you to listen to some of her music and get inspired! Check out her website below!

https://www.evelyn.co.uk