Charles Hazlewood
Charles Hazlewood is one of the most successful musicians of his generation. He combines his role as a globe-trotting conductor with a high tv and radio presence, underlining his core passion as a musician to engage the maximum number of people with music. He has his own Sony Award-winning shows on Radio 3 and Radio 2, and has also authored and conducted the music in landmark documentaries on Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky for BBC television. He is currently developing an unprecedented history of British Music for BBC2 due for transmission in early 2009.
Following his studies at Christ’s Hospital and Oxford University, Charles Hazlewood won first prize in the European Broadcasting Union Conducting Competition in Lisbon in 1995 and has since established himself as one of Britain’s most exciting young conductors.
He guest conducts most of the leading orchestras in the UK and further afield; in 2003 he made his American conducting debut in New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and in 2006 his conducting debut for the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. He brought the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain to the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, making history in performing the first ever symphony concert on the world-famous Pyramid Stage.
Charles Hazlewood is Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, Founder/Music Director of EXCELLENT DEVICE! and its sister orchestra, the period instrument ensemble HARMONIEBAND.
He is Music Director and co-founder of the Cape Town-based lyric theatre company DIMPHO DI KOPANE (Sotho for Combined Talents). His productions with the company have included THE MYSTERIES, THE BEGGARS OPERA, THE SNOW QUEEN and CARMEN; their first feature film ‘U CARMEN E KHAYELITSHA,’ premiered in South Africa in 2005, going on to win the prestigious Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
Since 2003, Charles has made regular appearances on Radio 3, conducting and presenting Discovering Music. He is a regular face on the BBC’s Proms coverage, and in 2005 joined the Radio 2 line-up, with an eclectic show playing his own wide-ranging taste in music, from The Prodigy to Purcell.
In 2003 Charles Hazlewood was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award and in both 2005 and 2006, Charles won Sony Music Broadcaster of the Year Awards. In the words of the judges: "Switching from Bizet to Amy Winehouse and back again, a broadcaster who takes you vividly inside the world of music and music-making. Genuinely educational without being the slightest bit patronising. We all just wished he would have been our music teacher at school".
Charles Hazlewood: the face of BBC Classical Music.
Daily Telegraph
Charles Hazlewood is a major proselytizing force in classical music and his energy and enthusiasm are infectious.
The Guardian
Charles Hazlewood is acid-hot!
The Observer
Charles Hazlewood, conducting with his usual muscular panache
The Times
Popstar lookalike... he could get anyone interested in music!
The Independent
The ever-stimulating musical polyglot
The Times
For further information about Charles' music and conducting work, please see his website http://www.charleshazlewood.com
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