Angela Hewitt
Angela Hewitt CC OBE (born July 26, 1958 ) is a Canadian pianist .
Life
Angela Hewitt comes from a family of musicians, her father was a cathedral organist in Ottawa . At the university there she studied with the French pianist Jean-Paul Sévilla. In 1985 she won the International Bach Piano Competition in Toronto . In 1977 she took part in the International Robert Schumann Competition for Voice and Piano in Zwickau.
Hewitt's repertoire is broad. One focus is the piano works by Johann Sebastian Bach , which she recorded in full on 14 CDs for the British record label Hyperion . In addition, there are currently recordings of works by François Couperin , Frédéric Chopin , Enrique Granados , Gabriel Fauré , Maurice Ravel , Olivier Messiaen , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Ludwig van Beethoven , Robert Schumann and Emmanuel Chabrier .
In Germany , too , Hewitt is now gaining increasing attention from audiences and critics: after appearing at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the European Music Festival Stuttgart, she made her debut in the Berlin Philharmonic with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin in October 2005 .
After long stays in Paris (1985–1988) and London, Hewitt now mainly lives in London. She has secondary residences in Ottawa and Umbria ( Italy ). There, in July 2005, she initiated the Trasimeno Music Festival, which mainly brings together artists from the region around Lake Trasimeno . Angela Hewitt plays on a F278-wing brand Fazioli and 17 used it at all recordings. In February 2020, a transport company dropped the instrument after it was recorded in Berlin. According to Paolo Fazioli, it was irreparably damaged in the process.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Piano wearers drop world-famous grand pianos in Berlin. In: The world . February 12, 2020, accessed March 23, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Hewitt, Angela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1958 |