Angela Hewitt

Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music (2013-2014)

The Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music is made possible by the generous support of  Lawrence Saper and is hosted by Peterhouse, Cambridge.

Angela Hewitt is a British/Canadian pianist. One of the world’s leading pianists, Angela Hewitt regularly appears in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, marking her out as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

In 2012/13, Angela Hewitt began a major project to perform Bach’s The Art of Fugue in two programmes in major halls worldwide, based around concerts at the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the International Piano Series. This follows on from the celebrated project ‘Angela Hewitt’s Bach Book’ in 2010, where Ms Hewitt gave world premieres of six newly-commissioned works by leading composers at Wigmore Hall.

Angela Hewitt was named ‘Artist of the Year’ at the 2006 Gramophone Awards. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000 and was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006. She lives in London but also has homes in Ottawa and in Italy, where she is also Artistic Director of the Trasimeno Music Festival in Umbria.

In the video above Hewitt leads a performance of Ravel’s Trio in A Minor, played by Katherine Lee (violin), Ghislaine McMullin (cello) and Johnson Leung (piano).