Shepherd University

Shepherd's Friends of Music to present Angela Hewitt

ISSUED: 18 March 2005
CONTACT: Valerie Owens
304/876-5465
(Shepherd's Friends of Music to present Angela Hewitt)

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Shepherdstown, WV--The Shepherd University Friends of Music will present pianist Angela Hewitt on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. at the Frank Arts Center Theater. Hewitt will perform Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor and French Overture in B Minor, Couperin's Treizieme ordre, and Le Tombeau de Couperin by Ravel.

Hewitt has performed throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, China, Mexico, and Russia. This season she performs with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit, Montreal, Colorado, Vancouver, Memphis, Nashville, and Toronto symphony orchestras, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and the Singapore Symphony. She has a vast repertoire ranging from Couperin to the contemporary, and her discography includes CDs of Granados, Olivier Messiaen, the complete solo works of Ravel, and most recently the complete Chopin Nocturnes.

Born into a musical family, Hewitt began her piano studies at the age of three, performing in public at four, and winning her first scholarship a year later. 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 Sevilla at the University of Ottawa. She was the top prizewinner in the International Bach Competitions of Leipzig and Washington, D.C., as well as the Schumann competition in Zwickau, the Casadesus competition in Cleveland, and the Dino Ciani competition in LaScala, Milan. She was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3 Listener's Award in 2003.

Tickets are $25 general admission and $20 for students. For tickets or more information, call the concertline at 304/876-5555.

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