{{short description|British music critic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Ivan Hewett | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * University of Oxford * Royal College of Music }} | occupation = {{hlist|Music critic|author}} | credits = {{plainlist| * ''The Daily Telegraph'' }} }}
'''Ivan Hewett''' is a British music critic and author who specializes in classical music. Since 2009 he has been the chief music critic for British newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph''. Hewett has a particular interest in contemporary classical music, which was the topic of his 2003 book ''Music: Healing the Rift''. He is also active as a radio and television presenter.
==Life and career== Ivan Hewett studied music at the University of Oxford, receiving a Master of Arts.<ref name="ROC">{{cite web |title=Ivan Hewett |publisher=Royal College of Music |url=https://www.rcm.ac.uk/2017testarea/people/details/?id=03194 |access-date=27 October 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027071026/https://www.rcm.ac.uk/2017testarea/people/details/?id=03194 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He then attended the Royal College of Music to study music composition, and wrote music for television commercials for a year.<ref name="BOD">{{cite web |title=Ivan Hewett |publisher=Academy of Ideas |website=battleofideas.org |url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2017/speaker/ivan-hewett/ |access-date=27 October 2021 }}</ref> Throughout the 1980s and in to the 1990s, Hewett unsuccessfully attempted to start a music festival, did research for the ''Man and Music'' programme, on Granada TV, and assisted with Jonathan Miller's TV performance of Bach's ''St Matthew Passion''.<ref name="BOD"/> He has contributed to music publications such as ''The Musical Times'' and ''Prospect'' since the 1980s.<ref name="BOD"/> At various times, Hewett has also worked as a lecturer, broadcaster and composer.<ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news |title=Ivan Hewett - Telegraph |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/ivan-hewett/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718122015/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/ivan-hewett/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |accessdate=1 October 2013}}</ref>
By the 1990s, Hewett began presenting on music for the BBC Radio 3; from 1993 to 2002 he led the weekly programme "Music Matters".<ref name="BOD"/><ref name="Telegraph"/> Since 2009, he has been chief music critic for British newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph'', having succeeded Geoffrey Norris.<ref name="ROC"/><ref name="Telegraph"/> His interests include the composition, reception and harmony of contemporary classical music.<ref name="ROC"/> His interests in modern music culminated in a 2003 book entitled ''Music: Healing the Rift'',<ref name="ROC"/>{{sfn|Hewett|2003}} described as a "very personal view" on the topic.<ref name="BOD"/> Other publications by Hewett include a chapter for ''The Proms: A New History'' (2006) book on The Proms,{{sfn|Hewett|2003}} and ''The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions'' (2015) on art music around the world.<ref name="ROC"/>{{sfn|Hewett|2015}}
Since the late 1990s, Hewett has been a professor at the Royal College of Music.<ref name="BOD"/>
==Selected writings== ===Books and chapters=== * {{cite book |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |year=2003 |title=Music: Healing the Rift |publisher=Continuum |location=London |isbn=978-0-8264-5939-8 }} * {{cite book |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |editor-last1=Doctor |editor-first1=Jennifer Ruth |editor-last2=Wright |editor-first2=David C. H. |year=2006 |title=The Proms: A New History |chapter=Joining the Queue: Audiences for the Proms |pages=210–231 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |location=London |isbn=978-0-500-51352-1 |ref=no |author-mask=2 }} * {{cite book |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |editor-last=Church |editor-first=Michael |year=2015 |title=The Other Classical Musics: Fifteen Great Traditions |chapter=Europe |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Woodbridge |isbn=978-1-84383-726-8 |author-mask=2 }}
===Articles=== {{for|other articles by Ivan Hewett|#External links}} * {{cite news |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |date=15 October 2015 |title=Krzysztof Penderecki and London Philharmonic Orchestra, review: 'flawed' |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/krzysztof-penderecki-and-london-philharmonic-orchestra-festival/ |url-access=subscription |ref=no }} {{subscription required}} * {{cite news |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |date=17 January 2022 |title=Encore! What it's like to take part in a 24-hour, non-stop classical concert |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/encore-like-take-part-24-hour-non-stop-classical-concert/ |url-access=subscription |author-mask=2 |ref=no }} {{subscription required}} * {{cite news |last=Hewett |first=Ivan |date=18 April 2022 |title=Sir Harrison Birtwistle obituary |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/18/sir-harrison-birtwistle-obituary |author-mask=2 |ref=no }}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/i/iu-iz/ivan-hewett/ Articles by Ivan Hewett] on ''The Daily Telegraph'' {{subscription required}} * [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ivan-hewett Articles by Ivan Hewett] on ''The Guardian'' * {{Muckrack|ivan-hewett}}
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