Today, percussion soloists are expected to be able to play a large number of the instruments in the percussion family and some, like the great percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, even create their own.

Evelyn Glennie is a percussion player performing at solo concerts. She is an enormously successful musician despite being deaf. She has learned to use her whole body to ‘hear’ sounds.

Evelyn Glennie is a percussion player performing at solo concerts. She is an enormously successful musician despite being deaf. She has learned to use her whole body to ‘hear’ sounds.