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Contact:
Nicole Gallego
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
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NHSO WELCOMES LEADING CLASSICAL PIANIST,
ANGELA HEWITT
New Haven, CT May 1, 2009: Join the fourth oldest symphony orchestra in the nation, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra on May 14, 2009, for a historic 115th Anniversary Concert, 8:00pm Woolsey Hall. Revel in the exquisite music-making of internationally renowned pianist Angela Hewitt, and bear witness to history as Music Director William Boughton and the NHSO record William Walton’s Symphony No. 1, LIVE, for international release—Spring 2010. Also on the program: Mendelssohn’s Overture the Hebrides and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor.
Pianist Angela Hewitt has established an international reputation as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of Bach. In 2005, she completed an eleven-year project to record his entire major keyboard works, an achievement hailed as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). Her repertoire, however, extends well beyond Bach, with her discography including CDs of Granados, Beethoven, Rameau, Chabrier, Messiaen, the complete solo works of Ravel, the complete nocturnes and impromptus of Chopin, and three discs devoted to the music of Couperin. Her recordings of the complete solo keyboard concertos of J.S. Bach with the Australian Chamber Orchestra entered the Billboard charts in the U.S. only weeks after their release, and were named Record of the Month in Gramophone magazine. The first of a series of CDs featuring the music of Schumann was released in November 2007.
Angela Hewitt has performed throughout North America and Europe as well as in Japan, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Israel, China, Mexico, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union. Highlights of recent seasons include her debuts at Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw, and with the Cleveland Orchestra, as well as a North American tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
In July 2005, Angela Hewitt launched her own Trasimeno Music Festival in the heart of Umbria. Now an annual event, it draws an international audience to the Castle of the Knights of Malta in Magione, on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. Seven concerts in seven days feature Hewitt as a recitalist, chamber musician, song accompanist, and conductor, working with both established and young artists of her choosing.
Born into a musical family Angela Hewitt began her piano studies at the age of three, performing in public at four, and a year later winning her first scholarship. 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 Sévilla at the University of Ottawa. She won First Prize in Italy’s Viotti Competition (1978) and was a top prize winner in the International Bach competitions of Leipzig and Washington D.C. as well as at the Schumann Competition in Zwickau, the Casadesus Competition in Cleveland, and the Dino Ciani Competition at La Scala, Milan. In 1985 she won the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition.
Ms. Hewitt was named Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2006. She was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listener’s Award (Royal Philharmonic Society Awards) in 2003. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006. She has lived in London since 1985 and also has homes in Ottawa and Umbria.
Tickets ($10-65) can be purchased by contacting the Shubert Theater Box Office at 203-562-5666 or by visiting newhavensymphony.org.
A Tempestuous Relationship is sponsored in part by: Whitney Center, New Haven Register, WSHU, Comcast, and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
CALENDAR LISTING:
New Haven Symphony Orchestra: A Tempestuous Relationship
New Haven Symphony Orchestra with William Boughton, Music Director
Thursday, May 14; at 8:00 p.m. at Woolsey Hall, New Haven
Program: Mendelssohn’s The Hebride Overture, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, Walton’s Symphony No. 1 in B minor
Ticket Prices: $10-65
Tickets can be purchased by contacting the Shubert Theater Box Office at 203-562-5666 or by visiting www.newhavensymphony.org.
All programs subject to change without notice.
