Mozart and the Elegance of Angela Hewitt 2025-2026
Brought to life by pianist Angela Hewitt, Mozart’s Concerto dazzles with its charm and brilliance. Colgrass creates intriguing connections between musical eras by incorporating quotes from Beethoven and Haydn, taking listeners on a journey through time. The program concludes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1, which captures the nostalgic beauty of the composer’s snowy winter walks.
Voices from the press
« As I watched, it was tempting to describe the occasion as ‘historic’, except that doing so would have implied something of the reliquary about Slatkin, a notion rebuked by the 80-year-old conductor’s abundant nimbleness of gesture and thought. » – Bachtrack Los Angeles
« Slatkin took to the podium with his characteristic energy that really invigorated the National Symphony Orchestra. Conducting Brahms’ Third Symphony from memory, his signature charm and dynamic presence were on full display. » – Bachtrack Dublin
« The Canadian pianist is one of the reliably mesmerising musicians of the day. You sit entranced….it would have been more accurate to say I was floating just below the ceiling. » – The Sunday Times
« The paramount quality of Angela Hewitt’s piano playing is the joy it communicates. Underpinning it there is incontrovertible intellectual rigour; and there are great reserves of wisdom and technical finesse. » – Daily Telegraph
Artists
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Angela Hewitt, piano
Program
Michael Colgrass, As Quiet As (13 min) 🍁
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto for Piano No. 26, K. 537 (“Coronation”) (30 min)
Intermission (20 min)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 1, Op. 13 (“Winter Dreams”) (44 min)
Leonard Slatkin
ConductorInternationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin is Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Directeur Musical Honoraire of the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), Conductor Laureate of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (OFGC), Artistic Consultant to the Las Vegas Philharmonic (LVP), and Artistic Advisor to the Nashville Symphony. He maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting and is active as a composer, author, and educator.
Slatkin has received six Grammy awards and 35 nominations. Naxos recently reissued Vox audiophile editions of his SLSO recordings featuring the works of Gershwin, Rachmaninov, and Prokofiev. Other Naxos recordings include Slatkin Conducts Slatkin—a compilation of pieces written by generations of his family—as well as works by Saint-Saëns and Ravel, among others.
A recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Slatkin also holds the rank of Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor. He has been awarded the Prix Charbonnier from the Federation of Alliances Françaises, Austria’s Decoration of Honor in Silver, and the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton.
For more information, visit leonardslatkin.com.
Angela Hewitt
PianoAngela Hewitt occupies a unique position among today’s leading pianists. With a wide-ranging repertoire and frequent appearances in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, Americas and Asia, she is also an award-winning recording artist whose performances of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters. In 2020 she received the City of Leipzig Bach Medal: a huge honour that for the first time in its 17-year history was awarded to a woman.
In March 2024, Hewitt embarked on her latest major project entitled ‘The Mozart Odyssey’, comprising the composer’s complete piano concertos. The Mozart project continues in 2025/26 with a variety of engagements which extend the Odyssey’s reach to 13 countries.
In 2018 Angela received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2015 she received the highest honour from her native country—becoming a Companion of the Order of Canada (which is given to only 165 living Canadians at any one time). She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, has seven honorary doctorates, and is a Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse College in Cambridge. In 2020 Angela was awarded the Wigmore Medal in recognition of her services to music and relationship with the hall over 35 years.
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