On February 15, Evelyn Glennie, the world's first percussionist with a successful solo career and a Grammy winner who lost her hearing in childhood, will perform a jazz program together with the Scottish HLK Trio at the Grand Philharmonic Hall.

Evelyn Glennie studied music despite her diagnosis, she learned to “hear through her body and began to show up on stage barefoot for better perception of sound vibrations”. Today, she is a world star. She has collaborated with such musicians as Bjork and Sting, Sir Georg Solti and Leonard Slatkin, Murray Perahia and Emanuel Ax. More than 200 compositions for percussion solos including the world's leading composers have been written especially for Evelyn Glennie. She is the winner of over a hundred international awards, including the Polar Music Prize, the Officer and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

"My career and my life have been about listening in the deepest possible sense. Losing my hearing meant learning how to listen differently, to discover features of sound I hadn’t realized existed. Losing my hearing made me a better listener", says Evelyn. "Touch the sound" (movie about her) and her TED conference speech “How to truly listen” remain the key testimonies to her sound creation approach.

Evelyn Glennie's stage partner at the St Petersburg concert will be the HLK Trio, which unites bright, independent-minded musicians. "Their deconstruction of jazz classics could easily have sounded mannered, but instead I found it genuinely complex, uncompromising, at times very beautiful, and above all deeply engaging. I'd never heard anything quite like it (a novel experience at a jazz gig) and was immediately hooked", said the famous Scottish pianist Steven Osborne, who shared his impressions of the HLK Trio performance.

The concert of the HLK Trio and Evelyn Glennie is part of the Great Britain and Russia Year of Music program, which is held by the British Embassy in Moscow with the support of the British Council.