{"id":12030,"date":"2024-02-09T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T16:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12030"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:06:26","slug":"angela-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/angela-hewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Angela Hewitt\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Angela-Hewitt-160x200.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Angela-Hewitt-160x200.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Angela-Hewitt.png 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Angela Hewitt was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 13, \u201cin recognition of an outstanding contribution to music as a superb and inspiring performer, a brilliant interpreter of classical music and supporter of the arts.<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the world\u2019s leading pianists, Ottawa-born 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&#8217;s foremost interpreters of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born into a musical family, she began her piano studies at age three, performing in public at four and, a year later, winning her first scholarship. She then went on to learn with French pianist, Jean-Paul S\u00e9villa. In 1985, she won the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She launched her own Trasimeno Music Festival in the heart of Umbria near Perugia in 2005. An annual event, it draws an international audience to the Castle of the Knights of Malta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2012-\u201813, Hewitt began a major project to perform Bach\u2019s The Art of Fugue in two programs 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 &#8220;Angela Hewitt&#8217;s Bach Book&#8221; in 2010, where Ms. Hewitt gave world premieres of six newly-commissioned works by leading composers at Wigmore Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work has been widely honoured. A Juno Award-winner, she 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 Officer of the British Empire in the Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angela Hewitt was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Friday, June 13, \u201cin recognition of an outstanding contribution to music as a superb and inspiring performer, a brilliant interpreter of classical music and supporter of the arts. 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