“Charles Hazlewood is a major proselytizing force in classical music…his energy and enthusiasm are infectious.” – The Guardian.

“BBCTV’s pin-up conductor and Radio 3’s resident interpretative guru” – Daily Telegraph.

Charles's commitment has always been to bring great music to the widest possible audience. His passion to communicate, and his fresh and insightful approach has led to a highly successful television and radio career.

He conducted and presented VIVALDI UNMASKED for BBC1 in July 2002. He authored 12 landmark films for BBC2/4 collectively titled THE GENIUS OF MOZART (2004) and BEETHOVEN (2005), for which he recorded all the music with his period instrument orchestra Harmonieband. He is currently developing films about TCHAIKOVSKY for transmission in early 2007, and an unprecedented exploration of the complete history of British music, for 2007/8.

He regularly authors music features for The Culture Show (BBC2) and is the face of TV coverage of the BBC Proms. He made STRIPPING POP (BBC3) with Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) in 2003.

The much acclaimed Charles Hazlewood Discovering Music continues on Saturday afternoons on BBC Radio 3, where Charles uses his unique ‘hands-on’ approach to reveal the inner workings of great orchestral music in workshops with the BBC orchestras and his own two bands Excellent Device! and Harmonieband.

“Charles Hazlewood Discovering Music (is) terrific” – The Observer.

Radio 2’s the double Sony Award winning Charles Hazlewood Show continues with another series, on Monday nights in April/May, recorded on Hazlewood’s farm in Somerset. Unique on network radio, it demonstrates Hazlewood’s extraordinarily diverse musical tastes:

“Our eponymous hero continues his quest to play classical and popular, from Messiaen to Killing Joke and Stravinsky to Steve Harley, connecting his reliably interesting and diverse selections almost entirely spuriously as he goes” – Time Out.

Charles won both 2005 and 2006 Sony Award for his two radio shows.