Angela Hewitt

She studied violin with Walter Prystawski, recorder with Wolfgang Grunsky, and ballet with Nesta Toumine in Ottawa.

Her first full-length recital was at the age of nine, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where she studied from 1964 to 1973 with Earle Moss and Myrtle Guerrero.

[4] Her discography also includes works by Francois Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Olivier Messiaen, Emmanuel Chabrier, Maurice Ravel, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré.

Her entire 2007–08 season was devoted to complete performances of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier in major cities around the world.

In 1985, she won first prize in the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, which led to a recording with Deutsche Grammophon.

[10] Hewitt was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) on June 17, 2006, and Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2006.