About
Angela Hewitt is a Canadian classical pianist. She is best known for her Bach interpretations.
In 1975, Hewitt won the Chopin Young Pianists' Competition in Buffalo, New York, and a Bach competition in Washington, D.C. In 1979, she won third prize in the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, since renamed the Cleveland International Piano Competition. In 1978, she won piano division in the CBC Radio Competition and in 1980 the Competition in Milan, Italy. In 1985, she won first prize in the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, which led to a recording with Deutsche Grammophon. In 1986, she was named artist of the year by the Canadian Music Council.
In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC). In 2002, Hewitt was awarded the National Arts Centre Award, a companion award to the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards, given to an artist or group who has had an exceptional performance year.
Hewitt was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006 and Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2006. She received the MIDEM Classical Award for Instrumentalist of the Year in 2010, and was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award (Royal Philharmonic Society Awards) in 2003. She is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has honorary degrees from the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, Queen's University (Kingston), the Open University (London), Mount Saint Vincent University (Halifax), the University of Saskatchewan and Carleton University (Ottawa).
In December 30, 2015, Hewitt was promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest grade of the honour.
Repertoire
Besides Bach, performs and records works of Couperin, Rameau, Handel, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Chabrier, Debussy, Ravel, Granados, Messiaen. Performs in ensembles with the performance of works by Haydn, Mendelssohn, Elgar, etc. also Plays contemporary canadian authors (Barbara Pentland, etc.).