{"id":74137,"date":"2022-02-16T12:11:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=74137"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:11:06","slug":"scoop-ontario-honours-angela-hewitt-oskar-morawetz-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/02\/16\/scoop-ontario-honours-angela-hewitt-oskar-morawetz-award\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Ontario Honours Angela Hewitt With Oskar Morawetz Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_74138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74138\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Angela_Hewitt_-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Angela Hewitt (Photo: James Katz)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-74138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angela Hewitt (Photo: James Katz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Congratulations are in order! The Ontario Arts Council has just named pianist Angela Hewitt as the winner of this year\u2019s Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance.<\/p>\n<p>Every two years, the award is presented to a notable classical music performer with a recognized talent and commitment to Canadian music.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>To say she fits the bill is an understatement<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Widely regarded as one of the greatest living interpreters of J.S Bach, Angela Hewitt is in high demand as a soloist and as a member of orchestras around the world<\/li>\n<li>As a recording artist, her best known work is the award-winning cycle for Hyperion Records of all the major keyboard works of Bach<\/li>\n<li>Honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire and a Companion of the Order of Canada<\/li>\n<li>Supports music education with regular basis masterclasses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hewitt will accept the award during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/event\/tso-hewitt-plays-bach-mozart\/2022-02-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performance<\/a> with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday, February 16.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About the award<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Oskar Morawetz Award was established in 2007 to honour the composer&#8217;s legacy, which spanned more than half a century in Canada&#8217;s contemporary music scene.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s jury included Nicolas Ellis, Sandra Horst, and Robert Uchida.<\/p>\n<p>Previous winners include Russell Braun (2019), Yannick N\u00e9zet S\u00e9guin (2017), Bramwell Tovey (2015), and Judith Forst (2013).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Arts Council has just named pianist Angela Hewitt as the winner of this year\u2019s Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":74138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,5,74,39,3693],"tags":[286,9838],"yst_prominent_words":[7417,12147,10459,12272,12154,6767,6715,8399,12148,7314,8671,35127,6616,7080,8672,8670,35126,7451,15281],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/Angela_Hewitt_-2022.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jhL","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74139,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74137\/revisions\/74139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74137"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=74137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}