Percussionist Evelyn Glennie brought a scaled-back version of her ample artistry to Herbst Theatre on Sunday night. In place of the arsenal of instruments with which she generally delivers her ...

Dame Evelyn Glennie was like the Alice Waters of percussion Saturday night, cooking up a feast of sounds with the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra. Performing Michael Daugherty’s “Dreamachine,” a piece ...

Percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who’s been deaf since childhood and performs by feeling her instruments’ vibrations, plays drums, vibraphone, marimba, cymbals, gamelan–you name it. She’s done chamber ...

Throughout our century, the percussion has gained prominence and popularity as composers from Stravinsky to Bartok and Boulez shower attention on it as a source of fascinating rhythms. Yet its ...

Over the last two months, the BBC has been running a series of programmes based around the theme of freedom, called Freedom2014. Scottish-born Dame Evelyn Glennie - who has been profoundly deaf since ...

As the world’s only full-time, classical percussion-soloist, Scottish-born Evelyn Glennie bewitches audiences worldwide with her talent. And this weekend, as a featured soloist with the Baltimore ...

There was a time when pinning down Dame Evelyn Glennie for an interview was nigh on impossible. Emerging like an explosive force in the 1980s, as the world's first full-time globe-trotting percussion ...

In something of a coup, the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland has inveigled percussionist extraordinaire Evelyn Glennie to join it on its current tour of Dublin, Belfast and Glasgow. At the National ...

Dame Evelyn Glennie, 59, is the first person to sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with great artists and orchestras, writes Peter Robertson. Born in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is only since the middle of the 20th century that percussionists have taken off as the soloists in concertos ...