Evelyn Glennie the mouth organ and the clarinet. Other major influences were Glenn Gould, Jacqueline du Pré and Trilok Gurtu. She studied at Ellon Academy and the Royal Academy of Music, and was also a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. She was a member of the Cults Percussion Ensemble, formed in 1976 by local musical educator Ron Forbes. They toured and recorded one album, which was re-released on Trunk Records in 2012. Glennie tours extensively in the northern hemisphere, spending up to four months each year in the United States, and performs with a wide variety of orchestras and
Evelyn Glennie Michael Kamen, who also (in 2002–03) together formed the Music in Education Consortium. In 2012, she collaborated with Underworld on the to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games and performed live in the stadium. In 2018, Glennie worked with Gregory Doran and the Royal Shakespeare Company on the music for a production of "Troilus and Cressida". In 1994, Glennie married composer, sound engineer and tuba player Greg Malcangi, with whom she collaborated on several musical projects. They divorced in 2003, following her widely publicised affair with orchestral conductor Leonard Slatkin. Glennie has won many awards, including: She