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Charles Hazlewood In 1995, Charles Hazlewood won 1 st Prize at
the EBU Conducting Competition. He debuted
at Carnegie Hall in 2003 and, three years later,
at the BBC Proms. The artist collaborates with
ensembles all over the world; this season, he
appeared as guest conductor with the Göteborg
and Malmö Symphonies, the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment and the Philharmonia, as well as
performing at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
He is the music director of Excellent Device!, a group
specializing in contemporary music performance,
as well as the Army of Generale, whose members
play historical instruments. In 2008, he joined other
artists in founding the improvising ensemble The
Charles Hazlewood All Stars, which has taken part
in the Glastonbury Festival. He has been associated
for years with the BBC Concert Orchestra, with
which he performed at this season’s Proms concerts
with enormous success, and presented K. Weill’s
forgotten work Lost in the Stars (South Bank Centre
in London). For seven years, Charles Hazlewood
was music director of Dimpho di Kopane in Cape
Town, where he staged several opera productions
and made the recording U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
(Black Carmen) in a film version which was named
the best film at the 2005 International Film Festival
in Berlin. As an ardent popularizer of classical
music, he has prepared and recorded sound
tracks for television films about Vivaldi, Mozart,
Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, as well as for the
BBC2 series The Birth of British Music. He hosts the
celebrated Sony Awards radio broadcast series. One
of the conductor’s most recent artistic initiatives
was to organize the Play the Field festival broadcast
by Radio 2, which took place for the first time in
August 2009 at his estate in Somerset. In the next
few months, Hazlewood will première W. Gregory’s
newest opera at South Bank Centre’s Ether festival.
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