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Evelyn Glennie

Autor(a) de Good Vibrations: My Autobiography

27+ Works 61 Membros 16 Reviews

About the Author

Image credit: Credit: Michael Hoefner, 2004, Moers Festival

Obras de Evelyn Glennie

Rhythm Song (1990) 8 cópias
Drumming (1996) 5 cópias
Altamira (2016) 3 cópias
Battle Cry 2 cópias
Her Greatest Hits (1998) 2 cópias
Rebounds 2 cópias
Touch The Sound 1 exemplar(es)
Evelyn Glennie Meets Black (1998) 1 exemplar(es)
Last Contact 1 exemplar(es)
Crossing The Bridge 1 exemplar(es)
Wind Horse 1 exemplar(es)
Icefall 1 exemplar(es)
Warrior's Chant 1 exemplar(es)
The Council 1 exemplar(es)
Thunder Caves 1 exemplar(es)
Land Of Vendon 1 exemplar(es)
Attack Of The Glow Worm 1 exemplar(es)
First Contact 1 exemplar(es)
Percussion Concertos 1 exemplar(es)
Wind in the Bamboo Grove (1995) 1 exemplar(es)
Marimba Encores (1998) 1 exemplar(es)

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Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1965-07-19
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Scotland, UK
Local de nascimento
Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Ocupação
percussionist
Organizações
Robert Gordon University (Chancellor, 2021)
Sound World (Patron)
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Cults Percussion Ensemble
Pequena biografia
Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Annie Glennie, CH, DBE (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish percussionist. She was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015.

Glennie tours all over the world performing as a soloist with a wide variety of orchestras and eclectic musicians. She conducts master classes, consultations and engages in motivational speaking. She is a leading commissioner of new works for solo percussion. She is a prolific composer for the library music company Audio Network.

Glennie also plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered tartan known as "The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie".

She has been awarded 28 honorary doctorates from universities in the United Kingdom, the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1993 and was promoted to Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours.She was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2017 New Year Honours. She owns in excess of 3500 percussion instruments from all over the world and is continually adding to her collection. Glennie is an Ambassador of Sistema Scotland and is President of Help Musicians. She was appointed Music Rights Champion by the International Music Council in October 2016.
Glennie performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in London 2012, leading a thousand drummers in the opening piece of music "And I Will Kiss", and also playing the Glennie Concert Aluphone in "Caliban's Dream" during the ceremony for lighting the Olympic cauldron.

Membros

Resenhas

1. Entrances
2. Halasna
3. Sorbet No. 1: Latin American Interlude
4. Bongo- O
5. Sorbet No. 2: Chinese Cymbals
6. Prim
7. Sorbet No. 3: UDU Trail
8. The Anvil Chorus
9. Sorbet No. 4: Woodblocks and Falling Instruments
10. To the Earth
11. Sorbet No. 5: Wood and Metal Chimes
12. Pezzo Da Concerto No. 1, for Snare Drum
13. Sorbet No. 6: Simtak Debut
14. Matre's Dance
15. Exits
16. Sorbet No. 7: Hi-Hat Playout
 
Marcado
JohnBoudler | Nov 19, 2013 |
1. Michi for Marimba- K. Abe
2. Divertimento for Marimba and alto saxophone- Akira Yuyama
3. Wind in the Bamboo Grove- K. Abe
4. "Rhapsody" for Marimba, flute, clarinet, double bass and drums- T. Yoshioka
5. Variations on Japanese Children's Songs- Keiko Abe
6. Marimba Spiritual for Marimba solo with three percussionists- M. Miki
 
Marcado
JohnBoudler | Nov 19, 2013 |
1. Entrances
2. Halasana
3. Sorbet No. 1
4. Rhythm Song
5. My Spine
6. Slaughter on 10th Avenue
7. Sorbet No. 5
8. A little Prayer
9. Eldorado
10. Sorbet No. 7

Disc 2:

1. Sorbet No. 4
2. Light in Darkness
3. The Anvil Chorus
4. Rhapsody
5. The Swan
6. Sorbet No. 3
7. Concerto for solo percussion & chamber orchestra 1 st movement
8. The Flight of the Bumbs Bee
9. Sorbet No. 6
10. Marimba Spiritual
11. Hejre Kati
12. Maple Leaf Rag
13. Matre's Dance
14. Czardas
15. Oxygen
… (mais)
 
Marcado
JohnBoudler | Nov 19, 2013 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
27
Also by
5
Membros
61
Popularidade
#274,234
Avaliação
5.0
Resenhas
16
ISBNs
7

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