Angela Hewitt brings monumental piano program to UGA concert hall

From the University of Georgia Center for the Performing Arts:

“Hewitt’s mastery of distinct voices flowing in clear counterpoint was second to none, in a performance richly satisfying on every level.”—New York Classical Review

The UGA Performing Arts Center continues its 30th anniversary season with the return of world-renowned pianist Angela Hewitt Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 p.m. at Hodgson Concert Hall. An artist acclaimed for her luminous sound and profound interpretations, Hewitt will perform a program that traverses centuries of contrapuntal mastery, from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier to Brahms’s monumental Handel Variations.

Hewitt first performed in Hodgson Concert Hall in 1996, during the inaugural week celebration of the new Performing Arts Center, School of Music and Georgia Museum of Art. She was the soloist with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Robert Schumann's piano concerto.

She has long been regarded as one of the world’s foremost Bach interpreters, a reputation cemented by her award-winning recordings and her historic Bach Odyssey project, in which she performed the composer’s complete keyboard works across four continents. Her UGA program reflects that devotion, following preludes and fugues from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier with later fugues by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Barber, culminating in Brahms’s towering Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24.

ANGELA HEWITT

Hewitt occupies a unique position among today’s leading pianists. Her artistry has been recognized with some of music’s highest honors. In 2020, she received the City of Leipzig Bach Medal, becoming the first woman in its history to earn the award. She is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and recipient of the Wigmore Medal for her contributions to music. Her extensive discography on Hyperion Records includes acclaimed recordings of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Debussy, among others.

In recent seasons, Hewitt has embarked on a new major undertaking, The Mozart Odyssey, which encompasses the composer’s complete piano concertos. She appears regularly with leading orchestras in Europe, North America, and Asia, and she is also much in demand as a play-conductor.

Born in Ottawa, Hewitt began studying piano at the age of 3, gave her first public performance at 4, and launched her international career in 1985 when she won the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition. She now divides her time between London, Ottawa, and Umbria, Italy, where she founded the Trasimeno Music Festival.

PROGRAM

• Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludes and Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier,Book I (BWV 846-851)

• Felix Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue in E Minor, Op. 35, No. 1

• Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude and Fugue in F Minor, Op. 87, No. 18

• Samuel Barber: Fugue from Piano Sonata in E-flat Minor, Op. 26

• Johannes Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24

PERFORMANCE TALK

Join us for a free pre-performance talk by Assistant Professor Emely Phelps in Ramsey Concert Hall from 6:45-7:15 pm.

SUPPORTED BY

Patricia and Daniel Minkler

Murray and Doris Tillman

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