In 2012, Anthony Hewitt is undertaking a special project in line with the Olympics, to bring music to rural areas of the UK, when he will cycle from Lands End to John O’ Groats and give a concert at the end of each day. Anthony is doing this to support Get Kids Going! (who provide sports wheelchairs for handicapped children and young people), and two musical charities, Musequality and Sistema Scotland. (Click on the names to visit the websites of the respective charities). Clitheroe Concerts Society is pleased to have arranged his Clitheroe Concert on
Friday 18th May 2012, 7:30pm at
The Grand, York Street
Tickets will be priced at £10 for both members and non-members.
Purchasing arrangements will be announced nearer the time
Programme
| Schumann | Abegg Variations Op.1 |
| Schubert | Impromptus from Op.9 |
| Beethoven | Sonata No.20 in E major Op.109 |
| Chopin | Barcarolle in F sharp Op.60 |
| Chopin | Polonaise Fantasy in A flat |
| Scriabin | Sonata No.4 in F sharp |
| Chopin | Polonaises Op.40 |
| Kapustin | Etude Op.40 |
| Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 |
Anthony has established a reputation as a pianist of formidable interpretative and technical ability. Highlights of orchestral engagements include the RPO in London, National Symphony Orchestra and Princeton Symphony in the USA, as well as the Northern Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia Viva in the UK. He is the founding artistic director of the Ulverston international Music Festival.
He has given four recitals at Wigmore Hall, appeared across the USA including at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, toured South America and Japan, and performed chamber music at high-profile festivals in Europe including at the Chelsea and Chichester Festivals, Bastad in Sweden, Orpheus and Bacchus and Sanary in France, and Mecklenburg in Germany. Duo partners have included Emma Johnson, Martin Roscoe, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Chloe Hanslip, Thomas Carroll, and Narimichi Kawabata with whom he has toured major concert halls in the Far East.
His discography includes ‘Protégé’ (Divine Art Records) which is the first coupling on CD of the Liszt and Reubke Sonatas. It has been met with much critical acclaim including International Record Review which described it as “magisterial”.
Future plans include a recording of the complete piano works of Robert Schumann, performances in South Africa, Poland, Sweden and Japan, and a Wigmore series concert.
For further details about Anthony visit his website and for more details of the route he is going to follows visit his special Olympianist website. As you will see, fitting in all the locations where he is to play will involve a much greater distance than that undertaken by the usual Lands End to John O’ Groats travellers.