Gillian Maitland Summer Percussion Seminar, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, as well as winning many music competitions and awards for her exceptional abilities on the marimba. Throughout Maitland's education, she has racked up some single and long term lessons with some of the worlds most renowned percussionists. These include Dame Evelyn Glennie, Ney Rosauro, Kai Stensgaard, Joseph Gramley, Janis Potter, Nick Petrella as well as members of the percussion section of the New York Philharmonic. In 2005, after performing marimba to the G8 Wives at Glamis Castle and winning the award of Angus Youth Ambassador, Maitland won an
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