Evelyn Glennie and the Fantasia Orchestra
22:15 Tue 11 Aug 2026 Royal Albert Hall
Programme
- Partita – Sarabande(5 mins)
- The Wood Pigeon(5 mins)BBC commission: world premiere
- Serenade to Music(14 mins)arr. R. Douglas
- Pyramid Song(5 mins)arr. Simon Hale
Performers
- Evelyn Glenniepercussion
- Tom Fetherstonhaughconductor
About This Event
Grammy Award-winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie joins the Fantasia Orchestra and BBC Singers for a genre-busting programme connecting Vaughan Williams’s lyrical Serenade for Music – written for Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood – via Radiohead and the jazz of John Coltrane and Duke Ellington to the exhilarating invention of Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita. We also hear a world premiere from French-British soprano and composer Héloïse Werner.
The programme also includes works by Coltrane, Dvořák, Ellington, Feldman, Meredith Monk, Vincent Ho and Philip Sheppard
British Sign Language-interpreted by Sean Chandler
There will be no interval
Evelyn Glennie © Philipp Rathme and Brigitte
