The Fresno State College of Arts and Humanities and Department of Music
present
Dame Evelyn Glennie in a Master Class/Clinic
Friday, April 25, 2008 - 12:30-2:30pm - Fresno State Music Building Concert Hall
Tickets: General Public $15.00; Students, $10.00; Faculty, Staff and Seniors $12.00
Information: Contact Dr. Matthew Darling, Percussion Studies
California State University, Fresno (559)-278-2840
Tickets are available from the Department of Music Box Office: 11:00am-1:00pm
Online: www.csufresno.edu/music/concerts/index.shtml
Evelyn gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. For the first ten years of her career virtually every performance she gave was in some way a first. Her diversity of collaborations have included performances artists such as Nana Vasoncelos, Kodo, Bela Fleck, Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers, Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Fred Frith.
Evelyn has commissioned one hundred and fifty new works for solo percussion from many of the world's most eminent composers and also composes and records music for film and television (EG Composer). Her first high quality drama produced a score so original she was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards (BAFTA's); the UK equivalent of the Oscars.
Out of the 25 recordings made so far, Evelyn's first CD, Bartok's Sonata for two Pianos and Percussion won her a Grammy in 1988. A further two Grammy nominations followed, one of which she won for a collaboration with Bela Fleck. Evelyn's twelfth solo CD, Shadow Behind the Iron Sun (BMG Records) was based on a radical improvisational concept and has once again questioned people's expectations. More of her bio can found on her website: http://www.evelyn.co.uk/. An interpreter for the hearing impaired will be at this event.
