Last updated March 2006
Category: Radio 3
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Charles Hazlewood presents Discovering Music on BBC Radio 3 on Saturdays from 2.00 to 3.00pm.
Following his studies at Christ's Hospital and Oxford University, Charles
was nominated by the BBC as the UK's sole representative in the
European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in Lisbon.
He won first prize and following this success he established himself as one
of Britain's most exciting young conductors.
He guest conducts many of the leading orchestras across the country, including
the English Chamber Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,
London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Concert
Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and, further afield, the National Symphony Orchestra
of Ireland, the Orquester Sinfonica Portuguesa, the Patras Chamber Orchestra, the
West Australian Symphony and the Newhaven Symphony (USA).
He made his conducting debut in New York's Carnegie Hall in June this year with
the Orchestra of St Luke's.
In September 2003 Hazlewood began a major new series for Radio 3 with BBC
orchestras and his own band, exploring and deconstructing great orchestral music
of the last 300 years.
Charles Hazlewood is passionate about new work - in the
past six years he has conducted more than 50 world premieres.
Recent recording projects have included new English Chamber Orchestra (ECO) discs for
EMI, and cross-over projects with the ECO and rock bands Pulp and
Spiritualised recorded live at the Barbican.
