Evelyn Glennie contemporary musicians, giving over 100 concerts a year as well as master classes and "music in schools" performances; she frequently commissions percussion works from composers and performs them in her concert repertoire. She also plays the Great Highland Bagpipes and has her own registered tartan known as "The Rhythms of Evelyn Glennie". Glennie is in the process of producing her own range of jewellery and works as a motivational speaker. Evelyn also performed at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in London 2012, leading a thousand drummers in the opening piece of music, and then playing the Aluphone during
Ernest Glennie Ernest Glennie Ernest Glennie (8 February 1870— 16 July 1908) was a New Zealand rugby union player who represented the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks in 1897. His positions of choice were halfback, five-eighth and wing-forward. He was understood to have been born in Queenstown. Glennie initially played for the Pirates club in Invercargill. He then moved to Canterbury, and played for the Linwood club in Christchurch. It was here Glennie made the Canterbury provincial side, playing nine games between 1896 and 1897. He played mostly as a forward. He was described as a "speedy wing-forward". After playing