Evelyn Glennie_photo Jim Callaghan

Dame Evelyn Glennie will always be known as the percussionist who hears not through her ears but through her feet – which are usually bare when she plays, so she can feel the rhythms of the music through the platform floor.

That she’s profoundly deaf has never held her back or compromised her dazzling musicianship. And at the age of 54 she’s just as agile, energised and human dynamo-like as she was at 24, leaping about the stage and hitting everything in sight – including home-made instruments she knocks up in her garage (as she showed me once), like weird Heath Robinson contraptions but designed to make exotic noises that she turns into performance.

On Friday (October 18), she’ll be leaping round the platform at Kings Place in one of her own hyperactive, multi-tasking works – sharing the billing with the Swedish band O/Modernt.

And apart from Glennie’s no doubt show-stopping performance, you get Schoenberg’s anguished (although finally consoling) classic of Viennese expressionism Verklärte Nacht.

A curious but com­pelling combination.

• O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra with Evelyn Glennie, October 18, 7.30pm, Kings Place, 90 York Way N1 9AG, 020 7520 1490, www.kingsplace.co.uk/