Widely regarded as the Bach pianist of her generation, Angela Hewitt played fortepiano with members of the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall: Haydn, CPE Bach, Martínez and Mozart.
Angela Hewitt, widely regarded as the Bach pianist of her generation, played fortepiano with members of the Dunedin Consort at Wigmore Hall in Marylebone on Wednesday 16 September 2026.
Hewitt was born in Ottawa in 1958, the daughter of a cathedral organist. She began the piano at three with her mother, won a scholarship at five and gave her first full recital at nine.
Between 1994 and 2005 she recorded all of Bach’s major keyboard works. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada and holds an OBE.
She gave her first UK performance on the fortepiano in this hall in 2024. The instrument is lighter than the modern grand, faster to speak and quicker to die away, and it is the sound the eighteenth century wrote for.
Haydn’s Symphony No. 6 in D, Le matin, and CPE Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in C came before the interval. Marianne Martínez’s Sinfonie in C and Mozart’s Keyboard Concerto No. 14 followed. Martínez was a Viennese composer whom Haydn taught and with whom Mozart played duets.
The Dunedin Consort are Scotland’s leading period band.