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==Music Director==
Between 1995 and 2003 Hazlewood was Music Director of Broomhill Opera and [[Wilton's Music Hall]] in London; for them he conducted amongst others Britten's [[The Turn of the Screw (opera)|''The Turn of the Screw'']] (director Elijah Moshinsky), Puccini's ''[[Il Trittico
In 1999, Hazlewood and his collaborator, [[Mark Dornford-May]] were invited to create a new opera company in [[Cape Town]]. After auditioning in 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 3 had professional training. In January 2001, the company's debut of Bizet's ''[[Carmen]]'' opened to damning South African reviews, with one newspaper claiming it was preposterous for black South Africans to perform western opera. ''The Mysteries'', for which Hazlewood devised the score, opened in London in 2003 to widespread acclaim, provoking the first leader piece on the arts in the Times for 40 years<ref>{{cite news | author=Charles Spencer | title=Divine, defiant and dazzling | url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3573853/Divine-defiant-and-dazzling.html | work=The Daily Telegraph | date=28th February 2002 | accessdate=2009-11-13}}</ref>. Hazlewood was music director and conductor for the company's film version of ''Carmen'' set in a township in South Africa ([[U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha]]) which won the 'Golden Bear' award for Best Film at the 2005 [[Berlin International Film Festival]]. Their subsequent movie, ''[[Son of Man (film)|Son of Man]]'' featured a score created by Hazlewood in collaboration with the company.
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After adopting Somerset as his home, Hazlewood has been critical at the lack of professional orchestral performance in the county. He regularly involves local schoolchildren in his projects, holds regular workshops, advises young musicians, conducts amateur orchestras in the county, plays the organ in local churches and recently conducted at the re-opening of Bristol's [[Colston Hall]].
Hazlewood's flagship project is the music festival ‘Play the Field’ held at his farm near [[Glastonbury]] and launched in 2009. The festival, backed by TV Dragon [[Deborah Meaden]] takes place over the August Bank holiday weekend at his farm in Somerset. The 2009 programme included a version of Holst’s ''[[The Planets
<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mjkvg BBC Programmes]</ref>
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