charles hazlewood

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Charles Hazlewood is an award-winning conductor (EBU Conducting Competition 1995, First Prize) who works regularly with great orchestras around the globe. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2003 and his BBC Proms debut in 2006. This season sees his debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Gothenburg Symphony in Sweden and the Philharmonia in London. He is Music Director of the contemporary ensemble Excellent Device! and its period instrument sister-orchestra, Army of Generals.

Central to his work is a huge passion to engage a wider audience with great music; to this end he appears regularly on BBCTV. He has authored and conducted the music in films on Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky and his recent landmark series, The Birth of British Music. He appears regularly on Radio 3's Discovering Music, conducting the BBC Orchestras through deep-tissue exploration of great orchestral music. He also periodically hosts his own show on BBC Radio 2 which has won him 3 Sony Awards. A new run begins on Thursday 22 September 2011.

Hazlewood works in an amazingly wide musical spectrum. He has conducted over 50 orchestral world premieres from the cutting edge of contemporary music, pioneered the Urban Classic project (fusing Grime MCs with the BBC Concert Orchestra), and devised the music for many shows featuring his 40-strong South African opera company; The Times dubbed their West End run of 'The Mysteries', 'Some of the most blazingly original theatre in Britain'. He launched 'Charles Hazlewood's All Star Collective'- an ensemble dedicated to improvisation - at Glastonbury Festival 2008. (The Charles Hazlewood All Stars - "A sort of avante-garde super group" - The Idler)

In August '09 Charles unveiled a new breed of orchestral festival in the rural heartland of the British West Country. It was broadcast nationwide and attended by over 4,000 people. Orchestra in the Field returns June 30 - July 1 2012.

www.orchestrainafield.com

Upcoming highlights include the launch of Hazlewood's new Johannesburg opera company with 'Soweto Messiah', projects with the Philharmonia and National Youth Orchestra in London, the Malmö Synphony in Sweden and the Malaysian Philharmonic.

Charles Hazlewood is currently working to establish the UK's first ever national orchestra for musicians with disability: The British Paraorchestra

Click here for a recent article in the London Evening Standard about The British Paraorchestra.

Click here for the video of Charles Hazlewood's talk at TEDx Brussels about this project, plus performance by the first four members of the British Paraorchestra.

For a short video taster of the project itself click here.

For Charles Hazlewood's 2011 TED Global presentation click here.

For a biography of Charles Hazlewood click here

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