8 Quotes & Sayings By Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie is an internationally recognized concert pianist and winner of the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year Award. She was born in Scotland and moved to Canada at age 3. At age 11, she played for the Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace. At age 13, she performed at the Royal Albert Hall and later studied at the Royal College of Music in London and with Professor Vladimir Jurowski at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia Read more

In her concerts around the world, she has performed with many of the world's best-known musicians including Sir James Galway, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Simon Lebon, Colin Carr, Takako Nishizaki, David Robertson, and Kurt Masur. Since 1986, she has been a member of the piano faculty at Yale University School of Music where she has taught conducting classes to doctoral candidates. She also teaches at Ravinia Festival where she is on the faculty of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's summer program.

Her recordings have earned her two Grammy nominations.

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Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that. Evelyn Glennie
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Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that. Evelyn Glennie
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My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case. Evelyn Glennie
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Music really is our daily medicine. Evelyn Glennie
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Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. Evelyn Glennie
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The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. Evelyn Glennie
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Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities. Evelyn Glennie