Glen Donnelly hopes to raise $15,000 for charity by attempting the World’s Highest Musical Performance in Free-fall.

Australian violinist Glen Donnelly will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the World’s Highest Musical Performance in Free-fall later this year. Skydiving from 15,000 feet, Donnelly’s performance will take place on August 27, his 30th birthday – and he plans to make the jump in his birthday suit. Violin in hand and naked under his harness, Donnelly hopes to raise $1 for every foot he will fall, raising funds for three charities that focus on what he describes as an ‘unsung epidemic’ – men’s body image.

^{Violinist Glen Donnelly plans to break a Guinness World Record – and do so in the nude. Photo © Wiley Cochrane, Coffs Skydivers}

Donnelly has toured Australia for chamber music concert series Selby & Friends, studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra (his great great uncle Bernard Donnelly led the second violins in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s). But despite his burgeoning musical career, the violinist from NSW’s Central Coast suffered...