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Dazzling Evelyn
The world's first and most famous solo percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie returns to Manchester's Bridgewater Hall next Friday
Two of the works (by Zivkovic and Psathas) were written specially for her. She enjoys a special affinity with Psathas, and it was at The Bridgewater Hall that she gave the world premiere of another work by him, the concerto for piano and percussion with the Hall in 2002.
The Bridgewater Hall programme also includes her own arrangement of a Vivaldi Piccolo Recorder Concerto, and a version of Steve Reich's Clapping Music.
After bursting on to the classical scene, she continues to inspire today's leading composers and young musicians.
She has just released a recording of Thea Musgrave's Turbulent Landscapes, and will premiere five new percussion concerti this season alone.
Performing all over the world from South America to the Middle East, her Bridgewater Hall audience will hear her mastery of a battery of instruments, including a selection of waterphones.
Producing an ethereal, other-worldly sound, waterphones are popular with film makers and have been poetically described as like "a cascading crystal waterfall of light amidst the songs of a whale." Philip Smith will accompany her on piano.
Glennie's dazzling, energetic performances have won her worldwide fame.
Profoundly deaf since the age of eight from a neurological condition, she uses her body as an extension of her ears and literally feels the sounds.
Tickets for Evelyn Glennie's concert which is part of the International Series at The Bridgewater Hall on 19 March cost from 10 to 29 and can be purchased online at www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk or by telephone at (0161) 907 9000.
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