Biography
Andrea Oliva, Angela Hewitt
Described by Sir James Galway as ‘one of the best flautists
of his generation’, Andrea Oliva is the principal flautist of
the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in
Rome. Born in Modena in 1977, he graduated from the
‘Vecchi-Tonelli’ conservatory, where he studied with
Gabrielle Betti. He has also studied with Claudio Montafia,
Glauco Cambursano, Jean-Claude Gérard and Sir James
Galway. Andrea Oliva is the winner of over ten international
competitions, including the first prize in the competition
held in Kobe, Japan in 2005. As a soloist, he has performed
in some of the most important halls in the world: Carnegie
Hall in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in
London in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, the
prestigious Bunka Kaikan Hall in Tokyo, the Hong Kong
Academy, and also in Chile and Cuba. He was a permanent
member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and he
attended the Herbert von Karajan Academy.
At the age of twenty-three he was invited by the Berlin
Philharmonic to perform as Principal under conductors
such as Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev,
Sakari Oramo, Mariss Jansons and Bernhard Haitink.
Personally invited by Claudio Abbado, he has performed
with Bologna Mozart Orchestra, at the academy of which he
regularly teaches. From 2001 to 2003 he performed as
principal flautist with the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera
in Rome and, in this role, he presently collaborates with
numerous orchestras such as the Orchestra del Teatro
alla Scala in Milan, the Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich,
the Chamber Orchestra of Munich, the Bamberger
Symphoniker, the ORT in Florence, the Mahler Chamber
Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
He has performed as a soloist with the Orchestra
dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, with
conductors Christopher Hogwood, Myung-whun Chung
and most recently in Nielsen’s Flute Concerto with Sir
Antonio Pappano (broadcast on Italian television) and the
Italian premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Flute Concerto
with Manfred Honeck.
Andrea Oliva is a member of GlobeDuo; he teaches
at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and gives many
masterclasses around the world.
Angela Hewitt is a phenomenal artist who has established
herself at the highest level, not least through her awardwinning
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’. Her dis cography also
includes recordings of Beethoven, Chabrier, Granados,
Messiaen, Rameau, Ravel, Schumann, the complete
Chopin Nocturnes and three discs of Couperin.
Born into a musical family, Angela Hewitt began her
piano studies at the age of three, performing in public at
four and a year later winning her first scholarship. 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.
Angela Hewitt appears all over the world in many of the
most prestigious concert halls as recitalist and as soloist
with major orchestras. Her festival appearances have taken
her to Lucerne, Osaka, Prague, Moscow and New York, to
name but a few places. Her own annual Trasimeno Music
Festival takes place each summer in Umbria, Italy, and
features international artists as well as recitals, chamber
music, and concertos from Hewitt herself.
Angela Hewitt was awarded the first ever BBC Radio 3
Listeners’ Award (Royal Philharmonic Society Awards) in
2003. 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.
In 2006 Angela Hewitt was voted Gramophone’s ‘Artist
of the Year’. Her entire 2007–2008 season was devoted
to performances of the complete Bach Well-Tempered
Clavier in major cities all over the world.
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