Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood was born on 14 November 1966 and is a British conductor.
28 Facts About Charles Hazlewood
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Charles Hazlewood was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in May 2019 and became Sky Arts' Ambassador for Music in January 2021.
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Charles Hazlewood attended Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex where he was a chorister and organist.
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Charles Hazlewood later gained an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford in 1986, graduating in 1989.
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Charles Hazlewood made his London debut with his own chamber orchestra, Eos, in January 1991.
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Charles Hazlewood has conducted many orchestras, including the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, and the Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Orchestra of St Luke's, New York.
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Charles Hazlewood has conducted over 100 world premieres and is a founder of the British Paraorchestra, which performed together with the band Coldplay at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
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Charles Hazlewood has initiated several projects that explore common ground between different musical disciplines, such as "Urban Classic", which drew together five grime emcees and the BBC Concert Orchestra.
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In 2003 Charles Hazlewood formed Army of Generals, a period instrument orchestra, to record with him all the music for his BBC films on Mozart, Beethoven and the Birth of British Music.
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In 2008 Charles Hazlewood formed his All Star Collective ensemble to play Tubular Bells at the Glastonbury Festival, featuring artists from across genres including Adrian Utley of Portishead, Will Gregory of Goldfrapp and jazz saxophonist Andy Sheppard.
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In 2010 Charles Hazlewood conducted a live score for the 1926 silent film The Passion of Joan Arc, composed by Adrian Utley and Will Gregory, commissioned by Bristol Beacon and Watershed Media centre.
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Charles Hazlewood is Artistic Director of Paraorchestra, the world's first fully integrated ensemble of professional musicians with and without disabilities, which he founded together with television director Claire Whalley in November 2011.
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In 2017 Charles Hazlewood created kraftwerk re:werk, a re-imagining of Trans-Europe Express by German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, which was first performed at Bristol's Simple Things Festival.
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Charles Hazlewood was music director and conductor for the company's film version of Carmen, set in a township in South Africa, which won the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.
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The Mysteries, for which Charles Hazlewood devised the score, sold out in London's West End in 2003, inciting the first editorial on music in The Times newspaper in 40 years.
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Charles Hazlewood was music director of DDK from 2000 to 2007.
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In 2009, Charles Hazlewood conducted Kurt Weill's musical drama Lost in the Stars, reset in apartheid South Africa, at the South Bank Centre.
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In 2016 Charles Hazlewood wrote the score for an operatic version of The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
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Charles Hazlewood created the 2009 BBC Two documentary series The Birth of British Music.
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Charles Hazlewood has authored and conducted the music in BBC films on Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky as well as a series exploring the birth of British music.
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Charles Hazlewood appeared on the judging panel for the reality show Classical Star and anchored the BBC Proms TV coverage in 2008.
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In 2011, Charles Hazlewood commissioned leading instrument makers to create an orchestra of 44 instruments entirely from scrap.
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Charles Hazlewood authored and presented How Pop Songs Work ; a film with Damon Gough entitled Stripping Pop ; and a two part documentary Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism, on the history of minimalist music, in which he interviews the 'greats' of the genre: Terry Riley, Le Monte Young, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
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Charles Hazlewood became Sky Arts' Ambassador for Music in 2021 in a move from the channel to invest further in UK arts mentoring diverse and emerging talent across literature, music, dance, theatre and visual arts.
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Hazlewood's radio show, The Charles Hazlewood Show on BBC Radio 2, won three Sony Radio Academy Awards in 2006.
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On 24 May 2020 Charles Hazlewood was the guest in the BBC Radio 4 series Desert Island Discs.
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Charles Hazlewood has presented two TED talks; Trusting the Ensemble, The Debut of the British Paraorchestra, and a TEDx; Why Authenticity Matters TEDx.
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Charles Hazlewood was a judge of the popular music industry's creativity awards the Mercury Music prize, in 2007,2008, and 2009.