Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood (born 14 November 1966) is a British conductor and broadcaster on music.
After school at Christ's Hospital, Hazlewood gained an organ scholarship to Keble College, Oxford University in 1986.
He was nominated by the BBC in 1995 as the UK's sole representative in the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in Lisbon, where he won first prize, launching his conducting career. He conducted at Carnegie Hall for the first time in 2003.
Conductor of a variety of orchestras, Hazlewood made his BBC Proms conducting debut in the Royal Albert Hall in London in August 2006. He has also made a name for himself in Sweden as conductor of several concerts with video game music. He is joint Artistic Director and co-founder of the South African theatre company Dimpho Di Kopane.
Hazlewood has made a number of documentaries on composers for the BBC, including The genius of Mozart (2004, three parts), The genius of Beethoven (2005, three parts), and Discovering Tchaikovsky (2007, two parts). He also presents two weekly radio programmes: 'Charles Hazlewood' on BBC Radio 2 and 'Discovering Music' on BBC Radio 3.
Hazlewood collaborated with Deborah Meaden from the BBC programme Dragons' Den on a classical music festival called 'Play the Field', which took place in Somerset over the August bank holiday weekend, 2009. Hazlewood and Meaden met at the first night of The Proms in 2008 and Play the Field was the result.
Hazlewood subsequently featured in a short film commissioned by inward investment agency Into Somerset, [1] which also included Deborah Meaden. The clip of Hazlewood was filmed at the rehearsal of 'Play the Field'.
Like Meaden, Hazlewood lives in Somerset.
References
- ^ Somerset - where you and your business can grow - Into Somerset website
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