In March 2024, Hewitt embarked on her latest major project, titled The Mozart Odyssey, comprising the composer’s complete piano concertos. This followed Hewitt’s highly acclaimed Bach Odyssey cycle (2016–22), in which she performed the complete keyboard works of Bach across 12 recitals, also presented worldwide. The Mozart project continues in 2025/26 with a variety of engagements that extend the Odyssey’s reach to 13 countries; recent and upcoming conductor-led performances include the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Brussels Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Estonian National Symphony, Tampere Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, Montreal Symphony, NAC (Ottawa), Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and Ulster orchestras, among others.  

Hewitt is also much in demand as a play-conductor, collaborating with Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York, Cameristi della Scala, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Bochumer Symphoniker, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra as part of The Mozart Odyssey. She has previously led the Hong Kong and Copenhagen philharmonic orchestras, Lucerne Festival Strings, the Zurich, Basel, Swedish, and Stuttgart chamber orchestras, Salzburg Camerata, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan, and Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna’s Musikverein.

Hewitt’s award-winning cycle for Hyperion Records of all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). Her discography also includes albums of Couperin, Rameau, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel, Messiaen, and Granados. Her most recent recordings include three volumes of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas, released in November 2022 and October 2023, with the final set released in June 2025.

Born into a musical family, Hewitt began her piano studies at age 3, performed in public at 4, and a year later won her first scholarship. She studied with Jean-Paul Sévilla at the University of Ottawa and, in 1985, won the Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, which launched her career. In 2018 she received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2015 she received the highest honor from her native country—a Companion of the Order of Canada (which is held by only 165 living Canadians at any one time). That same year, she was inducted into Gramophone magazine’s Hall of Fame. In 2006 she was awarded an OBE from Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. 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 Hewitt was awarded the Wigmore Medal in recognition of her services to music and relationship with the hall over 35 years.

Angela Hewitt lives in London and also has homes in Ottawa and Umbria, Italy, where, 21 years ago, she founded the Trasimeno Music Festival—a weeklong annual event that draws an audience from all over the world.