Music For Young Children angela hewitt, pianist. MYCs Honorary Patron. pianist angela hewitt, who agreed to be the Honorary Patron of Music for Young Children® in 2000, continues to http://www.myc.com/honorary/
Extractions: Pianist Angela Hewitt, who agreed to be the Honorary Patron of Music for Young Children in 2000, continues to captivate and charm audiences around the world with her musicianship and virtuosity. Since her triumph in the 1985 Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, Miss Hewitt has been hailed as "the pre-eminent Bach pianist of our time" (The Guardian, London, 2001). In 1994, she embarked on a ten-year project to record all of the major keyboard works by Bach for the Hyperion label, a series which has been called "one of the record glories of our age" by London's Sunday Times. Her disc of Bach Arrangements won a Juno Award in Canada for the Best Instrumental or Chamber CD of 2001. During the year 2000, she gave complete performances of the 48 Preludes and Fugues in Canada, the United States, England, and Germany. She has performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Japan, Australia, China, Mexico, and the former Soviet Union. Born into a musical family (her father was the Cathedral organist in Ottawa, Canada), Miss Hewitt began her piano studies at the age of three, performing in public at four, and a year later winning her first scholarship. She also studied violin, recorder, singing, and classical ballet. At nine, she gave her first recital at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music where she studied from 1964-73. Miss Hewitt then studied with French pianist, Jean-Paul Sevilla, at the University of Ottawa from which she earned her Bachelor of Music degree at the age of 18.
Carnegie Connection pianist angela hewitt, Frank Arts Center, 300 pm. April 24. Shepherd University Wind Ensemble Performs at Carnegie Hall One and two night bus excursions http://www.shepherd.edu/musicweb/carnegieconnection.html
Extractions: The Shepherd University Department of Music has earned a reputation for a strong commitment to excellence, a commitment shared by the Friends of Music, a collection of business men and women as well as members and leaders of the community. The Shepherd University Wind Ensembles commitment to excellence was recently recognized with a coveted invitation to perform in Americas greatest concert venue, Carnegie Hall in New York City. Last years incredibly successful YEAR OF THE PIANO has made it possible to bring two of the worlds finest pianists to Shepherdstown to play our Frank Arts Center, the very same week that they perform at Carnegie in New York. Therefore, 2005 is our CARNEGIE CONNECTION, where we take the best of Shepherdstown to Carnegie and bring the best of Carnegie to Shepherdstown. And you can be a part! Andrew Carnegie, a powerful businessman and a leading force in the American steel industry, is remembered as an industrialist, millionaire, and philanthropist. Carnegie believed that the wealthy had an obligation to give back to society, so he donated much of his fortune to causes like education. Andrew Carnegies mission lives on in the thousands of libraries, universities and cultural institutions that his wealth has made possible. One of Andrew Carnegies cultural endowments is the famed Carnegie Concert Hall in New York City. Having received a coveted invitation to perform on the Carnegie Hall concert stage, the Shepherd University Wind Ensemble will be heading to New York in April. Join the Friends of Music and the Wind Ensemble on a bus trip to hear the group perform at Carnegie Hall on April 24th. For those unable to attend, the program will be repeated at the Frank Center for the Arts later that same week.
Shepherd University (Shepherd s Friends of Music to present angela hewitt) Shepherdstown, WVThe Shepherd University Friends of Music will present pianist angela hewitt on http://www.shepherd.edu/university/releases/hewitt05.html
Extractions: (Shepherd's Friends of Music to present Angela Hewitt) EDITORPLEASE NOTE: Click on the thumbnail to download an image: Shepherdstown, WV The Shepherd University Friends of Music will present pianist Angela Hewitt on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. at the Frank Arts Center Theater. Hewitt will perform Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor and French Overture in B Minor, Couperin's Treizieme ordre, and Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel. Hewitt has performed throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, China, Mexico, and Russia. This season she performs with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit, Montreal, Colorado, Vancouver, Memphis, Nashville, and Toronto symphony orchestras, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Singapore Symphony. She has a vast repertoire ranging from Couperin to the contemporary, and her discography includes CDs of Granados, Olivier Messiaen, the complete solo works of Ravel, and most recently the complete Chopin Nocturnes. Born into a musical family, Hewitt began her piano studies at the age of three, performing in public at four, and winning her first scholarship a year later. At nine she gave her first recital at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music where she later studied. She then went on to study with French pianist Jean-Paul Sevilla at the University of Ottawa. She was the top prizewinner in the International Bach Competitions of Leipzig and Washington, D.C., as well as the Schumann competition in Zwickau, the Casadesus competition in Cleveland, and the Dino Ciani competition in LaScala, Milan. She was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award in 2003.
Opus Pocus, The Magic Of Music Catching up with angela hewitt Ottawa s favourite pianist on sabbatical . . . but not for long. Musical Musings. Kontakt Suche. Kontakt angela hewitt http://opuspocus.ca/Articles/Musings/musings040801ah.htm
Extractions: Angela Hewitt is on sabbatical. It's only a four-month sabbatical and is being interrupted now and then by recording sessions and three concerts. (She would normally do close to thirty in the same period.) It definitely represents some time out for her, though, time in which she can atttend to her musical, business and personal concerns in relative peace. Last month I spent an hour with her over a drink and a bite to eat. She is such a delightful conversationalist that I would have enjoyed the meeting if we'd only talked about the weather. Instead, we began by talking about her new house in Italy. Recently completed, and now the home of her new nine-foot Fazioli piano, it is on a hillside overlooking Perugia, the capital of the Umbria Region. "The place in Italy has turned out fantastically," she says, adding that one of its advantages is that it makes it feasible to transport her piano to recording sessions in Germany and elsewhere, and to major concerts as well. "I'm using it mostly on the continent, but I think I'm going to take it to London with me for my debut recital in Royal Festival Hall."
Angela Hewitt angela hewitt. Winner of the 1985 Toronto International Bach Piano The Canadian pianist is praised as one of the outstanding Bach pianists of our time http://www.keyboardconcerts.com/Angela Hewitt.htm
Extractions: Arnaldo Cohen Antonio Pompa-Baldi Leon Bates Ursula Oppens ... Paul Badura-Skoda] ANGELA HEWITT Winner of the 1985 Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, Angela Hewitt has become one of Keyboard Concerts' favorite guests. The Canadian pianist is praised as "one of the outstanding Bach pianists of our time" (The Sunday Times, London) and has performed in the world's most prestigious venues including New York's Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., London's Wigmore Hall, Paris' Salle Gaveau, and the Sydney Opera House. Ticket Information CSU Fresno Map J.S. BACH English Suite in A Minor Toccata in E Minor Toccata in D Major WAGNER/LISZT Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde LISZT Sonata in B Minor
Chopin Piano Music (2005) hewitt was the only pianist familiar to me but the other two are of equal angela hewitt plays on an almost dark stage with very dramatic lighting http://www.audaud.com/article.php?ArticleID=109
Camden New Journal I ONCE saw pianist angela hewitt perform at Hampstead Town Hall, playing Bach toccatas and fugues, and she came under a little criticism for her romantic http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/2004 archive/110304/r110304_8.htm
Extractions: The revival of early music and the urge to play on original instruments is clearly not a high priority for Ms Hewitt. She has always preferred to instill greater personality and more of herself in the music. Criticisms of her interpretation would be misplaced as she delivers a wonderful master class in the playing of baroque music.
Camden New Journal angela hewitt Bach Fantasia and fugue in a minor and other works (Hyperion Canadian pianist angela hewitt has become one of the most respected http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/2004 archive/260804/r260804_8.htm
Bronson Piano Studio Date, Review, Organization. 07/05/99, pianist angela hewitt, Music Teachers Association of California. pianist angela hewitt. By Lyn Bronson http://www.bronsonpianostudio.com/reviews/070599r1.htm
Extractions: Lyn Bronson The final evening of the annual state convention of the Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC) culminates with a recital by the convention artist. So it was that on Monday evening at 8:30 pm, at the Hyatt Regency in Monterey, pianist Angela Hewitt stepped into the limelight and presented a program for a packed house of works by Bach, Mozart, Messiaen and Liszt. It has often been said that at a piano recital you can tell in the first ten seconds whether the artist's attitude is "I am a concert pianist and I am going to amaze you with my virtuoso technique" or rather "I love these pieces and I want to share them with you." It was the latter attitude that dominated the evening and contributed so much to its success. The opening work was Bach's Concerto in the Italian Style . You might wonder what an artist can possibly find new to say in such a well-known and venerable masterpiece. But, something new Ms. Hewitt did find, and what it was is a very personal and individual expressivity that is not afraid to interrupt the motoric flow of the work's first movement with subtle agogic delays or
Parker Piano Preview In 1984 young JapaneseCanadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker shot into the spotlight Janina Fialkowska, angela hewitt, André Laplante, and angela Cheng who http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm2-8/parker.html
Extractions: I n 1984 young Japanese-Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker shot into the spotlight taking the top prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in Britain. As a laureate of the Leeds Competition he joined the impressive fraternity of past winners which includes Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia. I first heard Parker live about ten years ago in concert with the Edmonton Symphony at the Jubilee Auditorium. Parker has a virile stage presence that immediately commands attention. His performance of Prokofiev's daunting Piano Concerto No 3 was unforgettable. With a rich, round piano tone he communicated both the lyricism and the sometimes furious excitement of the work. He did not hide behind the bravura notes but rather made the music his own and conveyed a genuine understanding of the piece. Since that memorable concerto I have heard Parker once more live with the Edmonton Symphony and several more times on CBC radio. At each hearing my initial impressions are confirmed: here is an artist truly in touch with his musical ideas, expressing them with conviction, ample technical ability and discipline.
Heart Of Canada: The Giftedness Of Angela Hewitt The Giftedness of angela hewitt. How can I possibly describe the rare beauty of angela hewitt s performance and talent as a pianist? http://heartofcanada.typepad.com/randomthoughts/2005/02/the_giftedness_.html
Extractions: hostName = '.typepad.com'; Main How can I possibly describe the rare beauty of Angela Hewitt's performance and talent as a pianist? When I listened to her collection of Chopin Noctures , myself having years of classical training on the piano, I was moved, not just by the musical composition, but also by the subtlety and nuance in her interpretation of the smallest detail pauses, phrasing, pedal work as each piece unfolded at her fingertips. She also wrote her own cd booklet notes, which are worth briefly excerpting here: One aspect of Chopin interpretation that I feel has been slightly neglected is the question of tempo, most evident in the Nocturnes which of course are all thought to be very slow....One day I decided to enforce the metronome markings left by Chopin for the Opp 9, 15 and 27 sets, and found much to my delight that they confirmed my suspicion. They are not meant to be all that slow. This changes the character of many of them, and for me adds far more life poetry and passion. I have only used them, however, as a confirmation of what I already felt, and not as a point of departure. On the other hand, it then seems even more important than ever to play as quietly as possible when called for. The Noctures are Chopin at his most intimate. They are secret confessions of the soul. - Angela Hewitt, Notes to
Angela Hewitt Joe H Klee reviews angela hewitt s CD The Complete Solo Piano Music of Maurice Ravel. consider the evidence of this fine young Canadianborn pianist. http://kleescds.homestead.com/Hewitt.html
Extractions: Front Page Intro Klee's CD's by Joe H. Klee The Complete Solo Piano Music of Maurice Ravel Angela Hewitt Hyperion CDA 67341/2 [138:11] If proof were needed that lightning can strike twice in the same place, consider the evidence of this fine young Canadian-born pianist. Not to take anything away from Glenn Gould, Angela Hewitt follows in his footsteps even to centering her recording career around the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Having proven herself in that classic Baroque repertoire, as well as the contemporary music of Olivier Messaien, she now moves to one of the twin titans of the French Impressionist period, Maurice Ravel. The hits are all here in this double CD collection ... Pavanne pour une infanta defunte, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Gaspard de la nuit and Miroirs. So are the less often recorded Serenade grostesque and Prelude. Not since the historic 1951 Columbia recordings by Robert Casadesus have I heard such a comprehensive, and excellently performed, survey of Ravel's music for the solo piano. The recorded sound of the piano, a Hamburg Steinway I would guess, leaves nothing to be desired. The liner notes by Ms. Hewitt are extensive and fascinating and end with her acknowledgement of one of her teachers, Jean-Paul Sevilla. This double CD from Hyperion belongs in the collection of anyone who loves the piano music of Maurice Ravel ... regardless of how many other recordings of this music they already own.
The Daily Page: Angela Hewitt pianist angela hewitt s vast repertoire ranges from Couperin to Chopin, Ravel to the contemporary. Her tenyear project to record all the major keyboard http://www.thedailypage.com/going-out/theguide/event.php?id=117628
Extractions: Featured CDs Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Vol. #2 Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Vol. #2 Martha Argerich: Beethoven: Triple Concerto Schumann: Piano Concerto Invitation to the Seraglio Warner Classics presents an Invitation to the Seraglio , a wonderful new CD of undiscovered pieces from the 19th Century Ottoman Empire. Hummel: Violin Concerto in G major Romantic Adagios II Romantic Adagios II Romantic Adagios Matthew White: Italian Oratorios Italian Oratorios , will enhance his growing reputation. Yo-Yo Ma: Vivaldi's Cello Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma is never afraid to explore new avenues of music, and for his new Sony CD, , he travels down a traditional path with a new twist. Krystian Zimerman This is how pianist Krystian Zimerman describes his approach to performing these romantic classics on his new Deutsche Grammophon recording Angela Gheorghiu: Diva Diva Murray Perahia Plays Bach The prolific pianist Murray Perahia continues to champion the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with his new Sony CD Murray Perahia Plays Bach Angela Hewitt: Francois Couperin-Keyboard Music, Vol.2
Gramophone - Features - The World's Best Classical Music Magazine but too many people think of angela hewitt as the Bach pianist. hewitt is a pianist with a broad range of passions and the taste and skill to http://www.gramophone.co.uk/interviews_detail.asp?id=1776&f=1774
Content Is For OCRegister.com Members Only Canadian pianist angela hewitt plays the composer s music her own way, And then there s angela hewitt. The Canadian pianist, who performs Bach in Orange http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/08/07/sections/entertainment/entertainment/ar
Piano Six Artist Biographies angela hewitt is nothing less than the pianist who will define Bach performance on the piano for years to come. STEREOPHILE http://www.pianosix.com/bios.html
Extractions: Jean A. Chalmers Foundation Artist Biographies Janina Fialkowska Third Piano Concerto lieder by Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann with baritone Daniel Lichti (Opening Day); a recital of virtuoso salon pieces and encores (CBC Records, 1998 Juno Award nomination); the complete Chopin (Opening Day) ; two sonatas and the four Impromptus of Chopin (Opening Day); the Paderewski piano concerto (Naxos); the three piano concertos of Liszt, with Hans Graf and the Calgary Philharmonic (CBC Records); and the complete Transcendental of Franz Liszt (Opening Day). Other recording projects are also in the works. Jon Kimura Parker Piano Six , playing to audiences of more than 1000 Inuit children. In 1998, in order to underscore his commitment to the chamber music experience, Mr. Parker joined with several of his colleagues in founding the highly successful Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Puget Sound, near Vancouver. Also in 1998, he was the co-creator and host of
Musical Pointers Chopin Piano Music Alfredo Perl/Freddy Kempf/angela hewitt Neither pianist looked or sounded comfortable. Kempf raced through all the notes with little http://www.musicalpointers.co.uk/reviews/cddvd/ChopinPerl.htm
Extractions: Opus Arte/BBC OA 0893 D [135 mins] This strange and essentially misconceived Welsh TV DVD of popular Chopin is worth considering only for Alfredo Perl 's account of the Op 28 Preludes. A well respected pianist, who gave them at the Festival Hall in London last month together with Beethoven sonatas, he alone seems at ease in front of the cameras despite near fatal presentation. The film team is more interested in "atmospheric evocative settings" and we are taken on a tour of Chateau de Neuville, the camera alighting on the piano and pianist, but rarely staying still for more than moments. Filmed over four days, the lighting varies as it would. There is no continuity; incredibly, each piece - many of them tiny - is separated from the next by a long pause during which the Opus No of the next one (not its key) is shown on a black screen. Why not simple (optional) subtitles with the information? If those had been placed at the end of the tracks, one could have skipped them with the zapper. But for all that, Perl held our attention for his undemonstrative, economical manner and poise; the easy pieces that everyone plays were especially notable for the careful weighting and voicing of every chord and harmonically significant moment, and he was the better for watching whilst listening.
