Dame Evelyn Glennie was recently awarded Denmark’s biggest music prize: The Léonie Sonning Music Prize. The trailblazing British percussionist will become the first percussionist to receive the prize in its six decade history. There is a link to the prize announcement below. And today’s Beautiful Music is Evelyn Glennie’s performance of an encore with Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellin in Colombia from an October 2010 performance. They’re playing Concerto for Percussion by Joseph Schwantner.
https://www.classical-music.uk/news/article/evelyn-glennie-receives-leonie-sonning-music-prize