Describe the musical journey of Evelyn Glennie in about 150 words
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Evelyn Glennie, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1965, is the world's foremost, and first full-time, solo percussionist. The recipient of enormous media attention due to her deafness, Glennie is likewise noteworthy for the variety of her repertoire and recording projects. She lost her hearing at the age of 12 and began to study timpani at that time, working extensively with her teacher to learn to sense percussion vibrations. Glennie studied percussion and timpani, though she also studied piano as a secondary focus from 1982, when she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Glennie became the first student ever to give a percussion recital or perform a percussion concerto at the RAM. Glennie made her professional debut in 1985, and it did not take long for her musical adventurousness to show itself. In addition to performing with classical ensembles, she commissioned new works (more than 130 works by 2008), single-handedly expanding the repertoire of works for solo percussion. Glennie has had many works written for her by major composers, including James MacMillan (the percussion concerto Veni, veni Emmanuel), Michael Daugherty (UFO), Yi Chen (Percussion Concerto), Thea Musgrave (Journey Through a Japanese Landscape), and many others. Among her recordings is the 2006 Naxos CD of Aurolucent Circles (Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra) and other works by Margaret Brouwer. An energetic concertizer, she is typically on the road for over 100 evenings a year, and has made several dozen recordings.
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Deafness. Glennie has been profoundly deafsince the age of 12, having started to lose her hearing from the age of 8. ... Glennie contends that deafness is largely misunderstood by the public. She claims to have taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears.