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'''Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood''' (born 14 November 1966) is a British [[conductor (music)|conductor]]. After winning the [[European Broadcasting Union]] conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties,<ref name=artsdesk>[https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/10-questions-conductor-charles-hazlewood 10 questions for conductor Charles Hazlewood], Artsdesk website, accessed 24 May 2020</ref> Hazlewood has had a career as an international conductor, music director of film and theatre, composer and a curator of music on British radio and television, Motivational Speaker and founder of [[Paraorchestra]] – the world's first integrated ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians. He 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 Matthew Egerton Hazlewood''' (born 14 November 1966) is a British [[conductor (music)|conductor]]. After winning the [[European Broadcasting Union]] conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties,<ref name=artsdesk>[https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/10-questions-conductor-charles-hazlewood 10 questions for conductor Charles Hazlewood], Artsdesk website, accessed 24 May 2020</ref> Hazlewood has had a career as an international conductor, music director of film and theatre, composer and a curator of music on British radio and television, Motivational Speaker and founder of [[Paraorchestra]] – the world's first integrated ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians. He was a guest on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'' in May 2019 and became [[Sky Arts]]' Ambassador for Music in January 2021. In 2023 Hazlewood was recognised for his 'outstanding contribution to the musical life of the UK'<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.classical-music.uk/news/article/charles-hazlewood-wins-making-music-s-sir-charles-groves-prize|title=Charles Hazlewood wins Making Music's Sir Charles Groves Prize|website=Classical-music.uk}}</ref> when awarded the Sir Charles Groves Prize by music charity [[Making Music (organisation)|Making Music]].
==Education and early career==
Hazlewood was born on 14 November 1966 to the Reverend Canon Ian Hazlewood and Helen Hazlewood.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hazlewood, Charles Matthew Egerton, (born 14 Nov. 1966), conductor; Founder Artistic Director, Paraorchestra, since 2011 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U119917 |website=[[Who's Who 2022]] |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=19 January 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2021}}</ref> His brother is [[Will Hazlewood]], an Anglo-Catholic
Hazlewood attended [[Christ's Hospital|Christ's Hospital school]] in West Sussex where he was a chorister and organist.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jeffries |first1=Stuart |title=Interview: Charles Hazlewood |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/mar/28/classicalmusicandopera1 |website=The Guardian |access-date=7 June 2021 |language=en |date=2005-03-28}}</ref> He later gained an organ scholarship to [[Keble College, Oxford]] in 1986, graduating in 1989.<ref>{{cite web |title=Keble organ scholars |url=https://heritage.keble.ox.ac.uk/history-features/keble-organ-scholars-2/ |website=Keble College |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> He made his London debut with his own chamber orchestra, Eos, in January 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Charles Hazlewood & Eos|url=https://digital-archive.ycat.co.uk/artists/charles-hazlewood-and-eos-93/|access-date=2021-06-07|website=YCAT Digital Archive|language=en-US}}</ref>
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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]], [[Malmö Symphony Orchestra]], [[Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra]], [[Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra]] and Orchestra of St Luke’s, New York.
He has conducted over 100 world premieres <ref>{{cite news|title=Charles Hazlewood|work=[[BBC Radio 3]]|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/charles_hazlewood.shtml|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528225809/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/presenters/charles_hazlewood.shtml|
In 2003 Hazlewood formed Army of Generals, a period instrument orchestra, to record with him all the music for his BBC films on Mozart,<ref>{{Citation|title=The Genius of Mozart (TV Mini-Series 2004– ) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401938/fullcredits|access-date=2021-05-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2004-03-27|title=Last night's TV: Mozart Uncovered {{!}} The Genius of Mozart|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/mar/27/tvandradio.television|access-date=2021-05-11|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Beethoven<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-02-07|title=Charles Hazlewood: 'I've had the most tormented, feverish relationship with Beethoven'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/07/charles-hazlewood-beethoven-and-me-interview-paraorchestra|access-date=2021-05-23|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> and the Birth of British Music.<ref>{{Citation|title=The Birth of British Music (TV Series 2009) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7277966/|access-date=2021-05-11}}</ref> Army of Generals would regularly collaborate with Paraorchestra until the ensemble was fully integrated into Paraorchestra in 2019.
In 2008 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 (band)|Portishead]], [[Will Gregory]] of [[Goldfrapp]] and jazz saxophonist [[Andy Sheppard]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-05-07|title=Charles Hazlewood is plotting to take classical music where it's never gone before. Will Hodgkinson tracks down the evangelical conductor|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/may/08/classicalmusicandopera.willhodgkinson|access-date=2021-05-11|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> It went on to play the [[Queen Elizabeth Hall]] in London,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hodgkinson|first=Will|title=Charles Hazlewood presents Tubular Bells at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London SE1|newspaper=[[The Times]]|language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charles-hazlewood-presents-tubular-bells-at-queen-elizabeth-hall-london-se1-ww5mkhqkff2|access-date=2021-05-11|issn=0140-0460}}</ref> [[Sage Gateshead]] and St George’s Bristol in 2011,
In 2009 he staged his first festival “Play the Field” with [[Dragons' Den (British TV programme)|
In 2010 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, Bristol|Watershed Media]] centre. It opened at [[Bristol Beacon]] in May 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2010-05-11|title=The Passion of Joan of Arc/Utley/Gregory {{!}} Pop review|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/11/passion-of-joan-of-arc-utley-gregory|access-date=2021-06-11|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
His "Orchestra in a Field" <ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-10-20|title=Orchestra in a Field {{!}} Orchestral music visits pastures new!|url=http://www.orchestrainafield.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020094906/http://www.orchestrainafield.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-20|access-date=2021-05-11}}</ref> festival took place at [[Glastonbury Abbey]] in 2012 with performances of [[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]]’s ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'', [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]]’s ''[[Carmen]]'', [[Mike Oldfield]]’s ''[[Tubular Bells]]'' and a collaboration with [[Professor Green]] and [[Labrinth]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2015-10-22|title=Genre busting conductor Charles Hazlewood|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201775702/genre-busting-conductor-charles-hazlewood|access-date=2021-05-11|website=[[RNZ]] |language=en-nz}}</ref>
Their “Thunderbirds are Go!” project was launched in 2014 at Glastonbury Festival,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Charles Hazlewood to bring Thunderbirds + Stingray to Glastonbury|url=https://www.gigwise.com/news/90812/|access-date=2021-05-11|website=
== Paraorchestra ==
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. The orchestra was the subject of a documentary by [[Channel Four Television Corporation|Channel Four]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Great British Paraorchestra {{!}} Channel 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/press/news/great-british-paraorchestra|access-date=2020-07-16|website=
Paraorchestra exists to recognise and showcase disabled musicians with extraordinary abilities, and to demonstrate their full integration into orchestral music. Just as the [[Paralympic Games|Paralympics]] have achieved in sport, Paraorchestra aims to shift perceptions of disability in creating a visible platform for gifted disabled musicians to perform and excel at the highest level, integrating talented players with disabilities into mainstream performances. The ensemble play an unconventional mix of acoustic, analogue, digital, and assistive technology instruments, drawing on the unique talents of their musicians and collaborating with high profile artists from across genres to create new and accessible orchestral music experiences.
In 2016, Paraorchestra performed the first
In 2019 Paraorchestra took their Love Unlimited Synth Orchestra, conducted by Hazlewood, to The Park stage,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glastonbury 2019 - The Love Unlimited Synth Orchestra|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/er3v9r/acts/a42b3d|access-date=2020-07-16|website=BBC Music Events|language=en}}</ref> celebrating the genius of [[Barry White]] alongside [[Gruff Rhys]], [[Nadine Shah]], [[Larry Heard]], Eno Williams of [[Ibibio Sound Machine]], [[YolanDa Brown]], [[Adrian Utley]], Clive Deamer and [[Lianne La Havas]].
In 2017 Hazlewood created kraftwerk re:werk, a
The Anatomy of the Orchestra, created and conducted by Hazlewood in 2018, saw a 50-strong ensemble of Paraorchestra musicians spread across the Atrium of [[Bristol Beacon]], performing [[Steve Reich]]’s [[The Four Sections]]. The performance invited audiences to move about the space and explore the orchestra, creating their own sonic experience of the piece . It played the Arnhem Foyer, Fairfield Halls, Croydon in November 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Truelove|first=Sam|date=2019-08-28|title=How to see behind the scenes of some of Croydon's most iconic buildings for free|url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/open-house-london-how-see-16827330|access-date=2021-04-15|website=MyLondon|language=en}}</ref> In 2020, Hazlewood and Paraorchestra were commissioned by the [[British Council]] to perform a version of Anatomy of the Orchestra at [[Garage Museum of Contemporary Art]]s in Moscow as part of the UK-Russia Year of Music.<ref>{{Cite web|title=February: The Anatomy of the Orchestra: Refractions and Abstractions. A concert by Paraorchestra with Charles Hazlewood {{!}} Year of Music 2019|url=https://www.year-of-music.org/en/whats-on/paraorchestra|access-date=2021-04-15|website=
In 2018 Hazlewood and Paraorchestra commissioned [[Goldfrapp]]’s [[Will Gregory]] to write a score for The Nature of Why, an immersive music experience which fused live music by an ensemble of Paraorchestra musicians with contemporary dance. The Nature of Why was inspired by a spontaneous lecture from the Nobel-prize winning theoretical physicist [[Richard Feynman]] on why magnets repel each other <ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-04-23|title=Review: Bristol New Music Festival, Various Venues|url=https://www.bristol247.com/culture/music/review-bristol-new-music-festival-various-venues/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Bristol 24/7|language=en}}</ref> and was directed by Hazlewood and Caroline Bowditch, choreographed by Bowditch, and conducted by Hazlewood, and opened Bristol’s [[Mayfest (Bristol)|Mayfest]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2018-05-11|title=Review: Mayfest: The Nature of Why|url=https://www.bristol247.com/culture/theatre/review-mayfest-bristol-the-nature-of-why/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Bristol 24/7|language=en}}</ref> The Nature of Why opened [[Southbank Centre]]’s Unlimited Festival in 2018 <ref>{{Cite web|title=The British Paraorchestra : The Nature of Why|url=https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/the-british-paraorchestra-the-nature-of-why/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Disability Arts Online|language=en}}</ref> then toured to the Heath Ledger Theatre, WA as part of Perth Festival 2019 where The Western Australian dubbed it ‘A modern ode to joy’.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-02-25|title=Interaction a modern ode to joy|url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/piaf/theatre-review-the-nature-of-why-ng-b881113225z|access-date=2021-04-15|website=The West Australian|language=en}}</ref> The Nature of Why toured the UK in 2019 playing [[Brighton Festival]], [[Wales Millennium Centre]] in Cardiff, [[Empress Ballroom|The Empress Ballroom]] at Winter Gardens, Blackpool, Kneehigh’s Asylum in St Austell, and [[The Lowry]] in Salford.
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==Music director for film and theatre==
In 1995 Hazlewood and British theatre director [[Mark Dornford-May]] began working on a venture called Broomhill Opera in Kent, England. In 1999 they moved their operation to the largely derelict [[Wilton's Music Hall]] in East London, restoring it back into a living performance venue.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|date=2005-03-28|title=Interview: Charles Hazlewood|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/mar/28/classicalmusicandopera1|access-date=2020-12-06|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-02-25|title=Carmen the mysteries, Wilton's Music Hall, London|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/carmen-mysteries-wilton-s-music-hall-london-9150652.html|access-date=2020-12-06|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> As Music Director for Wilton’s Music Hall Hazlewood conducted ''[[The Beggar's Opera|The Beggars Opera]]'' <ref
In 1999, Hazlewood and theatre director [[Mark Dornford-May]] created a new opera company in [[Cape Town]] from the townships and villages of South Africa; the mostly black lyric-theatre company [[Dimpho di Kopane|DDK]] (''Dimpho di Kopane'', Sotho for "combined talents") was formed. Of the 40 members, only three had professional training. In January 2001, the company's debut of Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]'' opened to damning South African reviews, with one newspaper saying it was preposterous for black South Africans to perform Western opera.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} Their South African Carmen went on to tour internationally. [[Fiona Maddocks]] wrote in The Observer ‘this is the Carmen by which all others should be measured’.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Maddocks|first=Fiona|date=2001-06-10|title=Carmen chameleon|url=http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/jun/10/featuresreview.review3|access-date=2021-03-29|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> Hazlewood was music director and conductor for the company's film version of [[U-Carmen eKhayelitsha|''Carmen'']], set in a township in South Africa, which won the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 2005 [[Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Staff|last2=agencies|date=2005-02-21|title=Carmen gets date with Golden Bear|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/feb/21/news|access-date=2021-03-29|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Their subsequent film, [[Son of Man (2006 film)|''Son of Man'']], featured a score created by Hazlewood in collaboration with the company.
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Hazlewood was music director of DDK from 2000 to 2007. With the company he also conceived the music for the shows ''Ibali Loo Tsotsi'' (''[[The Beggar's Opera]]'');<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-beggars-opera-orange-tree-theatre-richmond-125652.html |title=The Beggar's Opera, Wilton's Music Hall, London |last=Koenig |first=Rhoda |date=22 October 2002 |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London |
In 2009, Hazlewood conducted [[Kurt Weill]]'s musical drama ''[[Lost in the Stars]]'', reset in [[apartheid]] South Africa, at the [[South Bank Centre]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Edward |last=Seckerson |title=Lost in the stars |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/lost-in-the-stars-queen-elizabeth-hall-london-1724417.html |work=[[The Independent]] | location=London |date=30 June 2009 |
In 2014, Hazlewood scored a reworking of John Gay's
In 2016 Hazlewood wrote the score for an operatic version of ''[[The Tin Drum]]'' by [[Günter Grass]]. The show featured a libretto by Carl Grose and was performed and produced by Kneehigh Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-15|first=Susannah |last=Clapp| title=The Tin Drum review – a banging hit|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/oct/15/the-tin-drum-everyman-liverpool-banging-hit|access-date=2020-12-06|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> It was highlighted as one of [[Susannah Clapp]]’s top ten shows of 2017 in The Observer.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-12-10|title=Susannah Clapp's best theatre of 2017|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/dec/10/best-theatre-2017-susannah-clapp-review|access-date=2021-04-15|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
Hazlewood integrated mass karaoke into a show with Kneehigh’s ''Ubu!'' in 2018 which had its debut to critical acclaim ‘Singing truth to power: How Kneehigh's new show uses mass karaoke to topple a dictator’ Independent <ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-09|title=Singing truth to power: How Kneehigh's new show uses mass karaoke to topple a dictator|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/features/kneehigh-ubu-karaoke-alfred-jarry-asylum-cornwall-barns-mike-shepherd-a8479201.html|access-date=2021-03-29|website=The Independent|language=en}}</ref> in August 2018, and toured nationally in 2019.
==Television==
Charles Hazlewood's first TV appearance was as music director on [[Jonathan Miller]]'s
Hazlewood created the 2009 [[BBC Two]] documentary series ''The Birth of British Music''.<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Warman |title=Interview: Charles Hazlewood |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/5291551/Interview-Charles-Hazlewood.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] | location=London |date=7 May 2009 |
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In 2011, Hazlewood commissioned leading instrument makers to create an orchestra of 44 instruments entirely from scrap. Documented by BBC Four, the film culminated in a performance of [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky's]] ''[[1812 Overture]]'' on the scrap instruments with [[BBC Concert Orchestra]] at the 2011 [[The Proms|BBC Proms]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-12-08|title=Scrapheap Orchestra: the wheelie-bin overture|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/dec/08/scrapheap-orchestra|access-date=2021-06-11|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
He authored and presented ''How Pop Songs Work'' ([[BBC Four]], 2008); a film with Damon Gough (aka [[Badly Drawn Boy]]) entitled ''Stripping Pop'' ([[BBC Three]], 2003);<ref>{{cite news |first=Jonny |last=Dee |title=Top of the Boffs |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/jan/05/popandrock1 |work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London |date=5 January 2008 |
Hazlewood’s documentary for [[Sky Arts]], ''Beethoven and Me'' aired in January 2021. It featured members of [[Paraorchestra]]
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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sky Arts|url=https://www.skygroup.sky/skyarts|access-date=2021-03-29|website=
== Radio ==
Hazlewood's radio show, ''The Charles Hazlewood Show'' on [[BBC Radio 2]], won three [[Sony Radio Academy Awards]] in 2006. The musical selections are "linked together in surprising and productive new ways, with [[Mozart]], for example, followed by [[Ivor Cutler]], then [[The Streets]], then [[Handel]]".<ref>{{cite news |first=Elisabeth |last=Mahoney |title=Radio Review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/may/04/radio.tvandradio |work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London |date=4 May 2006 |
On 24 May 2020 Hazlewood was the guest in the [[BBC Radio 4]] series ''[[Desert Island Discs]].'' During the programme he revealed that he had been a victim of sexual abuse throughout his childhood.<ref>[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conductor-charles-hazlewood-reveals-childhood-sex-abuse-l3wf03mr7 "Conductor Charles Hazlewood reveals childhood sex abuse"], ''[[The Times]]'', 24 May 2020
== Motivational speaking ==
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==Other activities==
Charles Hazlewood was a judge of the popular music industry’s creativity awards the [[Mercury Prize|Mercury Music prize]]
==Personal life==
Hazlewood and his wife, Henrietta, have four children.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-i-moved-maestro-changes-his-tune-bl5rmlkjl07|title = Why I Moved: Maestro changes his tune|website=Thetimes.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jun/27/charles-hazlewood-british-paraorchestra|title = One from the heart: Charles Hazlewood's Paraorchestra|website = [[TheGuardian.com]]|date = 27 June 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/people/one-man-s-musical-mission-7786714|title=One Man's Musical Mission|website=Greatbritishlife.co.uk|date=14 February 2008}}</ref>
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