OTTAWA (Canada) – Celebrated Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has been nominated for a JUNO Award for Best Classical Album of the Year (Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) with Large Ensemble Accompaniment) for Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 (Hyperion), recorded with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and conducted by Hannu Lintu. The recording was captured in July 2013 in Ms. Hewitt’s hometown of Ottawa, as she and the NAC Orchestra performed on the NAC’s Southam Hall stage in front of a live concert audience.   

“We are absolutely delighted about Angela Hewitt’s JUNO nomination,” said NAC Orchestra Managing Director Christopher Deacon. “Angela Hewitt has had a lifelong relationship with the NAC Orchestra and we are so grateful to have been able to work with her and Hannu Lintu on this beautiful recording.”  The 2015 JUNO Awards air Sunday, March 15 on CTV and CTV GO from Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre, with additional broadcast details to follow.

ABOUT ANGELA HEWITT

Angela Hewitt is a phenomenal artist who has established herself at the highest level, not least through her award-winning recordings for Hyperion. Her series of all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). Her discography also includes recordings of Beethoven, Chabrier, Couperin, Debussy, Fauré, Granados, Messiaen, Rameau, Ravel, Schumann, the complete Chopin Nocturnes and a cycle of Mozart Concertos. Born in Ottawa, into a musical family, Angela Hewitt began her piano studies at the age of three. At the age of nine, she gave her first recital at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music where she later studied, going on to learn with the French pianist Jean-Paul Sévilla. She won the Viotti Competition in Italy and the Toronto International Bach Competition, and was a top prizewinner in the Bach competitions of Leipzig and Washington DC, as well as the Dino Ciani Competition at La Scala, Milan. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000. She was also awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2006. She has lived in London since 1985 but also has homes in Canada and Umbria.

ABOUT THE NAC ORCHESTRA

Founded in 1969, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra gives over 100 performances a year in Ottawa. The Orchestra is also one of the country’s leading cultural ambassadors, visiting over 120 global communities on more than two dozen international tours. The NAC Orchestra has also commissioned the creation of over 100 new Canadian works. Orchestra musicians and staff regularly teach students all over the world through the state-of-the-art broadband videolink at the NAC’s Hexagon Studio. The NAC Orchestra has recorded more than 40 discs, including six with Pinchas Zukerman. The Orchestra recording of Mozart with Angela Hewitt was released in June 2014 on Hyperion Records.