国家大剧院安吉拉·休伊特钢琴独奏音乐会(二)

　　An Instant Link From Head and Heart to Fingertips

　　"What draws the listener to Angela Hewitt…has to do with contact. Most piano performances arrive in translation： the inner musician making a decision， then issuing a command that makes its way through the body onto the keyboard and into the ear. The process alters the results. Ms. Hewitt is one of those rare musicians who seem to get something into their heads and hearts and find it at their fingertips instantaneously. To fuel this leap must require a fund of psychic energy beyond the average capacity. Good musicians are good athletes， not in the muscular sense but in the staying power of their imaginations. This pianist’s resolve to imbue every musical moment with an unrelenting sense of theater would exhaust most of us in 10 minutes." Bernard Holland in the New York Times， February 2007

　　由思想到情感再到指尖，一气呵成

　　伯纳德·霍兰在2007年2月的《纽约时报》上如是评价安杰拉·休伊特：“安杰拉·休伊特的演出之所以能够吸引观众，与“交流”一词分不开。很多钢琴表演者的演奏像是机械地转化，由他们心中的那个钢琴家决定演奏什么，然后发送指令，通过演奏者的身体和手指将指令传送到键盘上，然后再进入听众的耳朵。过程决定结果。只有少数优秀的钢琴家可以使作品与自己的思想和情感相融合，同时通过指尖表达出来，安杰拉·休伊特就是一位这样的优秀钢琴家。要实现这一跨越，需要一种超常的精神力量。优秀的音乐家犹如优秀的运动员，不仅要有强壮的肌肉，更要有持续的强大意志力。使每个音乐瞬间都充满激情的全情投入，可能很多演奏者在十分钟之内就会筋疲力尽，然而安杰拉·休伊特做却做到了。”

　　Born into a musical family (her father was the Cathedral organist in Ottawa， Canada) Angela Hewitt began her piano studies aged three， performing in public at four and a year later winning her first scholarship. During her formative years， she also studied violin， recorder， and classical ballet. At nine she gave her first recital at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music where she later studied. She then went on to learn with French pianist， Jean-Paul Sévilla， at the University of Ottawa. She won First Prize in Italy’s Viotti Competition (1978) and was a top prizewinner in the International Bach competitions of Leipzig and Washington D.C. as well as the Schumann Competition in Zwickau， the Casadesus Competition in Cleveland and the Dino Ciani Competition at La Scala， Milan. In 1985 she won the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition.