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Eric Hewitt is a saxophonist, conductor, composer, arranger and educator who enjoys an active and diverse musical career that has taken him throughout the world. Based in Boston, MA, he is the chair of The Boston Conservatory woodwind department and is the music director and conductor of The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Sinfonietta and New Music Festival. In recent years he has served as the music director and conductor of White Rabbit, an avant-garde ensemble-in residence at Harvard University with the Harvard Group for New Music from 2005–2010, as well as music director of the Charles River Wind Ensemble in Watertown, MA from 2005–2011. He serves presently as the Director of the Sinfonia Orchestra at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Director of the Boston College High School Big Band. Hewitt made his operatic debut conducting the premiere of Eric Chasalow’s multimedia opera, The Puzzle Master, at Brandeis University. In addition to his domestic activities, he has presented performances in Ireland and the UK, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan,Venezuela and Cuba.
Hewitt is a founding member of the Yesaroun’ Duo (with percussionist Samuel Z.Solomon) and the Radnofsky Saxophone Quartet. chamber musician, he has presented more than 50 premieres by dozens of composers from around the world. He is committed to challenging established musical aesthetics and regularly stimulates musicians and audiences alike by programming cutting edge music in the context of our inherited musical tradition. He has worked with composers Michael Colgrass, Ken Ueno, Nico Muhly, Jeff erson Friedman, Elliott Schwartz, Lei Liang, John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Donald Martino, William Thomas McKinley, Evan Chambers, Karel Husa, Bernard Rands and Gunther Schuller, as well as dozens of up-and coming young composers from around the world. Deeply interested in the expression of human existence, his performances focus on the communication of the shared human experience embodied in music.
Hewitt holds two degrees from the New England Conservatory, a B.M. in saxophone performance (2001) with Kenneth Radnofsky and a M.M. in conducting (2003) with Charles Peltz, both with a distinction in performance and academic honors. From NEC he has also received the George W. Chadwick Medal as the single outstanding undergraduate candidate, the Gunther Schuller Medal as the single outstanding graduate candidate, the Toujeé Alumni Award and the John Cage Award for commitment to the music of our time. In 2009, Hewitt was named Outstanding Music Faculty by The Boston Conservatory Student Government Association (SGA). After a four year, live-in apprenticeship under Gunther Schuller, he and his family now reside in Medford, MA.
www.yesaroun.com
ehewitt@bostonconservatory.edu
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Recent News
The Boston Conservatory Will Present Honorary Degrees to Michael Mayer and Alvin Epstein at 2012 Commencement
The Boston Conservatory Presents String Masters: Joseph Silverstein With Faculty and Friends from the Boston Conservatory
Boston Conservatory Percussion Ensemble Performs Free Concert
The Boston Conservatory Theater Ensemble Presents the Apple Tree
The Boston Conservatory Presents String Masters: Allison Eldredge, April 15
The Boston Conservatory Presents Piano Masters: the Boston Debut of Jorge Luis Prats
The Boston Conservatory Presents String Masters: Lila Brown, April 1
The Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Bruce Hangen Conductor, Performs in Cambridge April 1, 2012
The Boston Conservatory Presents Mozart's Don Giovanni
The Boston Conservatory Theater Ensemble Presents the Full Monty
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