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Biography of Dame Evelyn Glennie Aberdeen Percussionist - her performances, tv and film work, books and CDs
Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie was born in Methlick near Ellon, Aberdeenshire on the 19th July 1965. Evelyn Glennie grew up at the family farm. She was educated at Ellon Academy. Her percussion teacher was Ron Forbes.
Dame Evelyn Glennie talks about her childhood and favourite meals such as saps and stovies in Taste Ye Back: Great Scots and the Food That Made Them
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The Aberdeen skies are under attack from an enemy jet. It is spilling a strange yellow smoke. Minutes later, people start killing each other.
Former Royal Air Force Regiment Gunner Jason Harper witnesses this and then his wife, Pippa, telephones him, shouting that she needs him. They then get cut off. He sets straight out, unprepared for the nightmare that unfolds during his journey. Everyone seems to want to kill him.
Along the way, he pairs up with fellow survivor Imogen. But she enjoys killing the living dead far too much. Will she kill Jason in her blood thirst? Or will she hinder his journey through this zombie filled dystopian landscape to find his pregnant wife?
The Fence is the first in this series of post-apocalyptic military survival thrillers from the torturous mind of local horror and science fiction novel writer C.G. Buswell.
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Evelyn Glennie left Aberdeen in 1982 to study at The Royal Academy of Music in London. She won the Queen's Commendation Prize for all around excellence, the highest award given by the Royal Academy. Evelyn Glennie graduated in 1984 with an honours degree.
Saturday Live
Saturday Live was added to the Dame Evelyn Glennie biography when she was interviewed on Radio 4 Saturday Live in December 2010 as part of their secret lives series. Dame Evelyn Glennie talked about her love of collecting musical instruments from around the world and how she studies their sounds.
She also appeared on the radio 4 programme I've Never Seen Star Wars with Marcus Brigstocke where she watched Olympic games, went go karting and watched Downton Abbey, all for the first time.
Kilimanjaro
In November 2010 Evelyn Glennie biography was extended with a climb of Kilimanjaro, the mountain in Africa, to raise money for AbleCareAfrica. To donate or find out more please visit
www.justgiving.com/Evelyn-Glennie
Since then Evelyn Glennie has been active in the musical world - she performs over 100 concerts and recitals each year. She performs and works with a wide range of musicians, orchestras and composers as well as giving solo percussion performances. Her collaborative performances have been with such leading people as Nana Vasoncelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Kings Singers and Fred Frith.
Dame Evelyn Glennie will perform at the RSNO Scottish Prom on Saturday 26 June 2010.
In 1989 she was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance with David Corkhill, Murray Perahia and Georg Solti for Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Evelyn won a further Grammy award in 2002 for a collaboration with Bela Fleck for Sony Classical.
Have you seen my beautiful golden retriever Lynne out and about in Aberdeen? Ask her for a high-five! She's a Bravehound PTSD assistance dog, so we'll often be in shops, restaurants, and the cinema together.
We've written a book where I talk about growing up in Aberdeen and then joining the army to be a medic and nurse, and developing military Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I also talk about losing my son to suicide and the therapy I have had at Royal Cornhill Hospital and grief support groups in Aberdeen.
The author, Damien Lewis, said of Lynne:
"A powerful account of what one dog means to one man on his road to recovery. Both heart-warming and life-affirming. Bravo Chris and Lynne. Bravo Bravehound."
Download.
Buy the paperback.
An army veteran moves his family back to his Aberdeenshire home, but his nightmare neighbour starts a battle of wits with him. Who will win this One Last War?
Buy this latest novel by local author C.G. Buswell on Kindle or Paperback.
Advertise Here from just £70.
On the 26th November 1989 she made her first television appearance on The South Bank Show.
On the 6th March 1990 she was awarded the famous red book when she appeared in This Is Your Life.
She appeared on Last Night of the Proms: The 100th Season in 1994.
Since 1997 she has performed the musical score for TV programme Trial and Retribution (series 1 through to 7). Evelyn has also performed the musical scores for TV programmes Blind Ambition in 2000, Bramwell in 1998 and the film The Trench in 1999.
In 2001 Evelyn appeared on children's TV programme Sesame Street.
In 2004 she presented the documentary Touch the Sound which explored the bodies connections amongst sound, rhythm and time. Throughout 2004 and 2005 she toured the UK demonstrating the findings of the documentary. This included shows at Woodend Barn in Banchory and the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen.
Her autobiography Good Vibrations was published in 1990 Click here
to purchase it with free delivery available.
With Rocky Maffitt she published another book in 1995 entitled Rhythm and Beauty: The Art of Percussion - Click here to buy it.
In 1990 she was named Scottish Woman of the Decade.
In 1993 Evelyn Glennie was awarded the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her service to music.
On the 24th November 2005 Evelyn was at the Music Hall in Aberdeen with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jurjen Hempel.
Evelyn Glennie has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates from UK Universities.
In December 2006 Evelyn Glennie OBE was made a Dame in the New Year Honours for 2007. She was presented her award at Buckingham Palace on the 25 June 2008.
In April 2007 Evelyn Glennie was awarded the Incorporated Society of Musicians' Distinguished Musician Prize. She was nominated by councillor Dr David Smith who is a member of the Society.
Evelyn Glennie has recorded many CDs including Shadow Behind the Iron Sun, Rhythm Song, Rebounds and Light In Darkness.
Visit the official Evelyn Glennie website at www.evelyn.co.uk to read more about the Evelyn Glennie biography.
Photograph courtesy of Eric Richmond.
More famous Aberdonians.
On the 10 April 2008 Evelyn Glennie with perform with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra erforming a new work by John Corigliano at The Music Hall Aberdeen City.
Evelyn Glennie Biography Aberdeen Percussionist
Biography of Dame Evelyn Glennie Aberdeen Percussionist - her performances, tv and film work, books and CDs
Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie was born in Methlick near Ellon, Aberdeenshire on the 19th July 1965. Evelyn Glennie grew up at the family farm. She was educated at Ellon Academy. Her percussion teacher was Ron Forbes.
Dame Evelyn Glennie talks about her childhood and favourite meals such as saps and stovies in Taste Ye Back: Great Scots and the Food That Made Them
. Follow us on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
Contact Me.
My new novel:
The Aberdeen skies are under attack from an enemy jet. It is spilling a strange yellow smoke. Minutes later, people start killing each other.
Former Royal Air Force Regiment Gunner Jason Harper witnesses this and then his wife, Pippa, telephones him, shouting that she needs him. They then get cut off. He sets straight out, unprepared for the nightmare that unfolds during his journey. Everyone seems to want to kill him.
Along the way, he pairs up with fellow survivor Imogen. But she enjoys killing the living dead far too much. Will she kill Jason in her blood thirst? Or will she hinder his journey through this zombie filled dystopian landscape to find his pregnant wife?
The Fence is the first in this series of post-apocalyptic military survival thrillers from the torturous mind of local horror and science fiction novel writer C.G. Buswell.
Download Now.
Buy the Paperback.
Evelyn Glennie left Aberdeen in 1982 to study at The Royal Academy of Music in London. She won the Queen's Commendation Prize for all around excellence, the highest award given by the Royal Academy. Evelyn Glennie graduated in 1984 with an honours degree.
Saturday Live
Saturday Live was added to the Dame Evelyn Glennie biography when she was interviewed on Radio 4 Saturday Live in December 2010 as part of their secret lives series. Dame Evelyn Glennie talked about her love of collecting musical instruments from around the world and how she studies their sounds.
She also appeared on the radio 4 programme I've Never Seen Star Wars with Marcus Brigstocke where she watched Olympic games, went go karting and watched Downton Abbey, all for the first time.
Kilimanjaro
In November 2010 Evelyn Glennie biography was extended with a climb of Kilimanjaro, the mountain in Africa, to raise money for AbleCareAfrica. To donate or find out more please visit
www.justgiving.com/Evelyn-Glennie
Music Of Evelyn Glennie
Since then Evelyn Glennie has been active in the musical world - she performs over 100 concerts and recitals each year. She performs and works with a wide range of musicians, orchestras and composers as well as giving solo percussion performances. Her collaborative performances have been with such leading people as Nana Vasoncelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Kings Singers and Fred Frith.
Dame Evelyn Glennie will perform at the RSNO Scottish Prom on Saturday 26 June 2010.
In 1989 she was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance with David Corkhill, Murray Perahia and Georg Solti for Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. Evelyn won a further Grammy award in 2002 for a collaboration with Bela Fleck for Sony Classical.
Have you seen my beautiful golden retriever Lynne out and about in Aberdeen? Ask her for a high-five! She's a Bravehound PTSD assistance dog, so we'll often be in shops, restaurants, and the cinema together.
We've written a book where I talk about growing up in Aberdeen and then joining the army to be a medic and nurse, and developing military Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
I also talk about losing my son to suicide and the therapy I have had at Royal Cornhill Hospital and grief support groups in Aberdeen.
The author, Damien Lewis, said of Lynne:
"A powerful account of what one dog means to one man on his road to recovery. Both heart-warming and life-affirming. Bravo Chris and Lynne. Bravo Bravehound."
Download.
Buy the paperback.
An army veteran moves his family back to his Aberdeenshire home, but his nightmare neighbour starts a battle of wits with him. Who will win this One Last War?
Buy this latest novel by local author C.G. Buswell on Kindle or Paperback.
Advertise Here from just £70.
TV Appearances Of Evelyn Glennie
On the 26th November 1989 she made her first television appearance on The South Bank Show.
On the 6th March 1990 she was awarded the famous red book when she appeared in This Is Your Life.
She appeared on Last Night of the Proms: The 100th Season in 1994.
Since 1997 she has performed the musical score for TV programme Trial and Retribution (series 1 through to 7). Evelyn has also performed the musical scores for TV programmes Blind Ambition in 2000, Bramwell in 1998 and the film The Trench in 1999.
In 2001 Evelyn appeared on children's TV programme Sesame Street.
In 2004 she presented the documentary Touch the Sound which explored the bodies connections amongst sound, rhythm and time. Throughout 2004 and 2005 she toured the UK demonstrating the findings of the documentary. This included shows at Woodend Barn in Banchory and the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen.
Books By Evelyn Glennie
Her autobiography Good Vibrations was published in 1990 Click here
to purchase it with free delivery available. With Rocky Maffitt she published another book in 1995 entitled Rhythm and Beauty: The Art of Percussion - Click here
to buy it. Awards Of Evelyn Glennie
In 1990 she was named Scottish Woman of the Decade.
In 1993 Evelyn Glennie was awarded the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for her service to music.
On the 24th November 2005 Evelyn was at the Music Hall in Aberdeen with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jurjen Hempel.
Evelyn Glennie has been awarded 15 honorary doctorates from UK Universities.
In December 2006 Evelyn Glennie OBE was made a Dame in the New Year Honours for 2007. She was presented her award at Buckingham Palace on the 25 June 2008.
In April 2007 Evelyn Glennie was awarded the Incorporated Society of Musicians' Distinguished Musician Prize. She was nominated by councillor Dr David Smith who is a member of the Society.
Evelyn Glennie has recorded many CDs including Shadow Behind the Iron Sun, Rhythm Song, Rebounds and Light In Darkness.
Visit the official Evelyn Glennie website at www.evelyn.co.uk to read more about the Evelyn Glennie biography.
Photograph courtesy of Eric Richmond.
More famous Aberdonians.
On the 10 April 2008 Evelyn Glennie with perform with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra erforming a new work by John Corigliano at The Music Hall Aberdeen City.
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