English conductor

Charles Hazlewood

Charles Matthew Egerton Hazlewood is a British conductor. After winning the European Broadcasting Union conducting competition in 1995 whilst still in his twenties, 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' when awarded the Sir Charles Groves Prize by music charity Making Music.

Born

1966

November 14

Died

Living

Era

1960s

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1966 Born

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-332 Alexander the Great is crowned pharaoh of Egypt.
1680 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1770 James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1812 Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Smoliani, French Marshals Victor and Oudinot are defeated by the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein.

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The world in 1966

When Charles arrived

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 14

Aaron Copland 1900–1990 American composer and conductor (born 1900) Adam Gilchrist 1971– Australian cricketer and sportscaster Astrid Lindgren 1907–2002 Swedish author and screenwriter (born 1907) August Šenoa 1838–1881 Croatian author and poet (born 1838) Benjamin Fondane 1898– Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (died 1944) Boosie Badazz 1982– American rapper Charles Lyell 1797–1875 Scottish geologist (born 1797) Claude Monet 1840–1926 French painter (born 1840) Dave Mackay 1934–2015 Scottish-English footballer and manager (born 1934)

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Also born in 1966

Jimmy Wales 1966– American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia Allan Donald 1966– South African cricketer and coach Andrew Adamson 1966– New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter Andrew Wood 1966–1990 American singer-songwriter (died 1990) Ben Folds 1966– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Bill Ranford 1966– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Calvin Borel 1966– American jockey Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Danny Manning 1966– American basketball player and coach

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