Gloria Yehilevsky

Biography

Gloria Yehilevsky is a London-based composer and improviser who integrates percussion performance with ongoing multimodal enquiry into a fluid cluster of activity. Situated in the UK’s jazz, experimental, and contemporary scenes, recent and upcoming appearances include the Vortex, Sands Films, Centrala, Sō Laboratories (NY), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Southbank Centre as part of Serious’ EFG London Jazz Festival. Gloria is currently working on her PhD in Creative Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.

She won the PAS/Armand Zildjian award and Italy PAS Vibraphone competition, performed in the San Diego Symphony, World Percussion Group, and alongside the Bang on a Can All-Stars at MASS MoCA, where Steve Reich described her as ‘an extremely impressive percussionist… with an amazing combination of technical mastery and riveting energy.’ 

Her work involves speaker and clinician engagements across disciplines and internationally, including invitations from The Scientific & Medical Network (UK), PASIC (US), PGVIM (TH), CalArts (US), University of Kentucky (US), Royal Northern College of Music (UK), and the Norwegian Academy of Music (NO), among others.

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