Evelyn Glennie Evelyn Glennie Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie, (born 19 July 1965) is a Scottish virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf since the age of 12 and has taught herself to hear with parts of her body other than her ears. Glennie was selected as one of the two laureates for the Polar Music Prize of 2015. Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician, whose first instruments were
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 -