what are her achievements Evelyn glennie
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When she was auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music, she scored one of the highest marks in the history of the academy. After the end of her three year course, she had bagged most of the top awards. She also became the world's most sought after multi- percussionist who achieved mastery in some thousand instruments. In 1991, she received the prestigious Soloist of the Year Award that is awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society.
Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie was born on July 19, 1965 in Aberdeen, Scotland, the youngest of three children and only daughter of farming parents. She began studying piano at age eight and two years later began to play clarinet. As her hearing began to deteriorate (Evelyn is profoundly deaf), she switched to percussion at age 12.
Evelyn Glennie is a percussionist of many firsts. She is the one who performed a full-time solo percussionist in the world. She is the one to perform a percussion concerto at London’s Royal Academy of Music, first to give a percussion recital and concerto performance at BBC’s Henry Wood Promenade Concerts also called as 'Proms'. She was the first percussionist to be awarded the Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE), and the youngest person ever to be elected to the PAS Hall of Fame.
On June 25, 2008, Dame Evelyn met Queen Elizabeth II to officially accept the honor that had been bestowed upon her the year before. Evelyn was also distinguished with the title Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her service to music in 1993, at the tender age of 27.
Evelyn was named Scotswoman of the Decade in 1990 and Musical America’s Instrumentalist of the Year in 2003, to name a few of the 80-plus awards she has to her credit. She has received over 20 honorary doctorates from universities around the world, and in 2006 she was recognized with Sabian’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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