“Ms. Glennie has become not only a pioneer and path-blazer, but one of music’s authentic contemporary heroines.” Dallas Morning News

Date and Time:
Monday, October 11, 2004 at 7:30 p.m.

Single Ticket Prices:
$10, 15, 22, 34, 45 (discounts available for seniors, youth, and groups)

Season Ticket Packages:
This concert is part of the Artist Series and Classic Artist Series season ticket packages.

Location:
Macky Auditorium

Running Time:
1.5 to 2 hours

Preconcert Conversation:
Doug Walter, Professor of Percussion at 6:45 p.m. in Macky Room 102

Event Overview:
Scottish virtuoso Evelyn Glennie has ignored barriers in her path to become the “First Lady of Solo Percussion.” After being recognized with honors including Grammy Awards and an appearance on David Letterman she is still brimming with ideas to redefine the very format of live performance itself. As a solo performer, she uses her trademark emotional range and intensity to bring to life a variety of traditional and non-traditional percussion instruments.

Program:
Fluctus – Zivkovic
Sechs Miniaturen – Schmit
Prim – Masson
Michi – Abe
Rhythmic Caprice – Stevens
Temazcal – Alvarez
Light in Darkness – Glennie
Toccata & Fugue – J.S. Bach, arranged Glennie

Artist Bio:
Considered a pioneer in the classical music community, Evelyn Glennie is the first person to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. Having established an outstanding international career, Ms. Glennie gives more than 100 performances a year with the world’s finest orchestras and conductors and in the world’s most prestigious concert halls. Her unique ability to combine her exceptional musical and technical abilities with a profound appreciation of the visual elements of percussion has led to performances of such vitality that they are redefining the concert experience for audiences the world over.

Evelyn Glennie has met with exceptional success in North America, where she devotes over four months of her annual schedule to recitals, concerts and master classes across the United States and Canada. She has performed with, among others, the orchestras of Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. She has played with such distinguished conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit, Seiji Ozawa, Mstislav Rostropovich, Leonard Slatkin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and David Zinman. Ms. Glennie also regularly appears throughout Asia, Europe, and the United Kingdom, where she is a regular guest at the BBC Proms.

In addition to her active performing schedule, Evelyn Glennie has worked tirelessly to expand the solo percussion repertoire. She has commissioned more than 100 new works for solo percussion, and the premieres of new works are a continual presence on her concert tours.

Ms. Glennie has an exceptional recording career, having recorded 17 discs encompassing many different genres and including a wide variety of artists. Her first CD, a recording of Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, received a Grammy in 1988. Subsequent solo recordings have garnered further awards including a Classic CD award for her recording of MacMillan’s “Veni, Veni Emmanuel,” and two Grammy nominations for her recordings of Joseph Schwantner’s Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra and “Reflected in Brass: Evelyn Glennie Meets the Black Dyke Band.” She received her second Grammy Award in 2002 for a collaboration with Bela Fleck (Sony Classical). Ms. Glennie’s 12th solo CD, “Shadow Behind the Iron Sun” (BMG Records), is her first fully improvised recording. Her most recent releases are “Oriental Landscapes” (BIS) and “Fractured Lines” by Mark-Anthony Turnage (Chandos).

Evelyn Glennie is also known to a wide public through her radio and television broadcasts. In addition to documentaries for CBS and the BBC, Ms. Glennie’s recent television appearances include “The David Letterman Show” (USA), “Sesame Street” (USA), “The Michael Barrymore Show” (UK) and presenting and performing on “Songs of Praise” (UK). Her Commonwealth Games Festival Concert was broadcast on BBC4 and she is currently collaborating with the renowned film director Thomas Riedelsheimer on a new film. Ms. Glennie also composes and records music for film and television, and her work has been nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award (BAFTA), the UK equivalent of the Oscars.

Evelyn Glennie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, where she studied timpani and percussion from the age of 12. In 1982 she entered the Royal Academy of Music in London, winning many prizes, including the Queen’s Commendation Prize for all-around excellence, the highest award given by the Royal Academy, and graduating with an honors degree at the age of 19. In 1990, she was named “Scot’s Woman of the Decade” and in 1993, at the age of 27, she was awarded the Officer of the British Empire (OBE). Ms. Glennie is currently studying for degrees in Psychology and Law. Her autobiography Good Vibrations was published by Century Hutchinson in 1990 and by Simul Press (Japan) in 1992.

Links:
www.evelyn.co.uk

Audio:
Listen to or purchase music from Evelyn Glennie at Barnes&Noble.com. A portion of your purchase will be donated to CU Concerts.
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