JUST FOR HOMERTON.

This is set to be one of the greatest conversations of 2020 (a year which is in need of them).

Evelyn Glennie has been profoundly deaf since childhood and is nevertheless the world’s premier percussionist. That’s extraordinary, and is almost the least interesting thing about her. She listens to others, and to her music, with her whole body, often performing barefoot to sense vibrations. She is a Dame, a Companion of Honour, and an Honorary Fellow of Homerton. She’ll be sharing her great warmth, wisdom and encouragement, and demonstrating on a few of her many hundreds of instruments how to properly LISTEN.

Andrea Cockerton will introduce. She’s one of the UK’s best communicators, an arts entrepreneur and social innovator, composer and music director, named by NESTA as one of 50 ‘New Radicals’, and serial founder of arts businesses that do social good in the world.

Homerton third-year undergraduate Katarina Sullivan, Musical Director of the Cambridge University Show Choir, will be asking the questions, if she can get a word in.