What advised give to Evelyn Glenna?
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- The advice given to Evelyn Glennie's parents when her deafness was confirmed at 11 years of her age was to send her to a school for deaf people with some hearing aids.
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is considered one of the world‘s foremost percussionists and is the first and only full-time solo classical percussionist. The master of more than 1, 000 traditional and unconventional percussion instruments from around the world has performed with a range of musical talents, from the Kodo Japanese drummers to Icelandic pop singer Björk, and with every major orchestra in America and Europe. Profoundly deaf (meaning severely impaired but not completely deaf) since the age of 12, the percussionist identifies notes by vibrations she feels through her feet and body; she insists her deafness is irrelevant to her ground-breaking, critically acclaimed work.
Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie was born July 19, 1965, the only daughter of Isobel, a school teacher, and Herbert Arthur Glennie, a beef farmer. Raised outside Aberdeen, Scotland, Glennie and her two brothers helped on the family farm and, though her mother was an organist, didn‘t grow up in a particularly musical environment. She was a promising student of piano and clarinet as a child, and she was blessed with perfect pitch, the ability to identify or sing a note by ear. At age eight, Glennie started complaining of sore ears and hearing loss. Her condition steadily deteriorated, and by age 11 she needed a hearing aid, which she found distracting and later discarded. She continued to play music and found she could perceive the quality of a note by the level of the reverberations she could feel in her hands, wrists, lower body, and feet. Glennie counts as her major influences cellist Jacqueline du Pré and pianist Glenn Gould.
Percussion “Felt Right”
When she was 12, Glennie saw a schoolmate playing percussion. She started taking lessons, and, she told People, “… it felt right.” She graduated with honors from London‘s prestigious Royal Academy of Music in 1985. She claims her deafness kept her from being caught up by social distractions and made her a better student, but she also realized it affected her ability to play in an orchestra, so she set her sights on becoming a soloist. In 1985 she made her professional debut; the following year she left for Japan to study the five-octave marimba for a year. Glennie‘s first decade as a professional solo performer was filled with milestones: first performance of a new percussion concerto, first time an orchestra had performed with a solo percussionist, first solo percussion performance at a festival or venue. In 1990 she met Greg Malcagni, a recording engineer, and the two wed four years later.
Glennie introduced her rendition of fellow Scot James MacMillan‘s Veni, Veni, Emmanual —described by Billboard as “a devoutly celestial concerto”—at London‘s Royal Albert Hall in 1992. She released a recording of the work the following year. In 1996 Glennie released Drumming, which she described to Billboard as “quite a
For the Record…
Born Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie on July 19, 1965, in Aberdeen, Scotland; married Greg Malcagni, 1994.
Musically gifted from an early age; profoundly deaf by age 12, when she began playing percussion; graduated from London‘s Royal Academy of Music, 1985; debuted professionally as world‘s first full-time solo classical percussionist, 1985; recorded numerous solo albums for RCA/BMG including MacMillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanual; Wind in the Bamboo Grove; Drumming; Her Greatest Hits; and Shadow Behind the Iron Sun; has performed with many of the world‘s best orchestras.
Awards: Scot of the Year, 1982; Hilda Deane Anderson Prize for Orchestral Playing, 1983; Hugh Fitz Prize for Percussion, 1983; James Blades Prize for Timpani & Percussion, 1984; Queen‘s Commendation Prize for all-around excellence, 1985; Leonardo da Vinci Prize, 1987; Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, 1987; All Music Young Professional Musician of the Year, 1988; Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for Bartok‘s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, 1988; Royal Philharmonic Society‘s Charles Heidsieck Soloist of the Year Award, 1991; Best Classical Percussionist, Modern Drummer magazine readers‘ poll, 1990; Scotswoman of the Decade, 1990; the Gulliver Award for the Performing Arts in Scotland, 1993; OBE (Order of the British Empire), 1993; Young Deaf Achievers Special Award, 1993; International Classical Music Awards Personality of the Year, 1993; Outstanding Individual Award, Alexander Graham Bell Association, 1997; Percussionist of the Year Award, DRUM magazine, 1998; Best Studio Percussionist and Best Live Percussionist awards, Rhythm magazine, 1998, 2000; numerous other awards, scholarships, fellowships, and honorary doctorates.
Addresses: U.S. Agent— ICM Artists, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211, (310) 550-4477. Website —Evelyn Glennie Official Website, http://www.evelyn.co.uk.
personal album.” She wanted to make a “raw, … improvised” album using untuned percussion. Billboard critic Timothy White called her playing on the record “breath-takingly instinctive.”
Glennie‘s twelfth solo release,
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