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
Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith Nick Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer, conductor, and musician who is a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, contributing to scores including that of the Academy Award-nominated 1994 animated film "The Lion King", the 1996 action film "The Rock", the 2006 historical movie "Children of Glory" and the 1993 spy thriller "Point of No Return". Glennie-Smith has also written the scores for the films "Home Alone 3", "The Man in the Iron Mask", "We Were Soldiers", "Secretariat", and the score for the Disney animated film "", "Lauras Stern", "Der kleine Eisbär 2 -