Charles Hazlewood is an award-winning conductor and musical revolutionary; he is a speaker, and Artistic Director of Paraorchestra.

He has conducted some of the greatest classical repertoire with some of the best orchestras in the world and is a significant presence on British television and radio.

He is the founder of the world’s first Paraorchestra and his critically-acclaimed music theatre shows tour the world; his innovations have created new audiences for orchestral music and even reset what our concept of an ‘orchestra’ is.  Hazlewood is a visionary with a mission to bring the ever modern joy of orchestral music to the 21st century audience and in doing so, to change lives and communities for the better.

Charles Hazlewood won first prize in the European Broadcasting Union Conducting Competition during his early twenties, and has since conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras (including The Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, The Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Danish Radio Symphony). He has played Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms, and multiple festivals throughout the world, collaborating with artists as diverse as Nigel Kennedy, Professor Green and Wyclef Jean. Charles has conducted over 200 world premieres and won the Berlin Film Festival 'Golden Bear' for Best Film with his South African township opera company's U Carmen e-Khayelitsha.

Under his leadership Paraorchestra became the world's first large-scale integrated ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians who made their debut at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics and were the first ever orchestral headliner at Glastonbury Festival. Charles has authored, presented and conducted the music in multiple films for BBC TV (on Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, amongst others, as well as The Beatles, and Badly Drawn Boy, and Minimalism); he has won three Sony Awards for his shows on BBC Radio 2, created the score for the South African Mysteries (West End and worldwide) and Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs), and a new opera The Tin Drum (both Kneehigh) and has three TED talks to his name.

林丰，作曲家、藝術家及藝術策劃人，1979 年生於香港。

林氏的作品曾於 BBC 逍遙音 樂會及紐約卡奈基音樂廳、柏林音樂廳、悉尼歌劇院、倫敦皇家阿爾伯特音樂廳、倫 敦南岸中心等國際音樂殿堂演出，更為英國廣播公司(BBC)委約的首位香港作曲家。 他的作品甚豐，至今已創作超過十首管弦樂作品，當中包括三首 BBC 所委約的作品， 以及由香港管弦樂團委約的兩首作品。 《無盡藏》於 2012 年 BBC 逍遙音樂會中由 BBC 交響樂團作世界首演，大獲好評，英 國《標準晚報》寫道:「林丰運用少量精心構造的素材創作，塑造出了一個有個性和 夢幻般的音樂世界」。 他於 2013/14 樂季曾任香港管弦樂團何鴻毅家族基金駐團作曲家，而為慶祝樂團成立 四十週年創作的作品《蘊》更於樂團與梵志登歐洲、澳洲和亞洲巡演期間在 12 個主要 城市巡迴演出。 其他演奏過他的音樂的樂團包括 BBC 音樂會管弦樂團、BBC 愛樂樂團、中國國家交響 樂團、倫敦交響樂團、紐西蘭交響樂團、皇家蘇格蘭國家交響樂團和東京愛樂樂團。 除純音樂作品外，他的創作還包括舞蹈音樂、戲劇音樂和跨媒介作品。最近的主要作 品包括為香港舞蹈團創作的《弦舞》(2019)、與跨界視覺藝術家又一山人合作的作 品專場音樂會《丰.人.夢》(2021)、與攝影師/導演夏永康合作的跨媒體節目《夜 曲》(2022)、與媒體藝術家林欣傑共同創作並於香港藝術節首演的《超真實》裝置 音樂會(2023)及再次和林欣傑合作並於臺中國家歌劇院演出的沉浸音像表演《超維 度╳光之曲幕》(2023-24)。

近年他亦有涉獵聲境作品、多媒體裝置以及視覺藝術品，包括曾於日本越後妻有大地 藝術祭香港部屋和不同國家展出的《圈》(2016-24)、與設計師陳韻淇合作並於南豐 紗廠展出的裝置作品《字間遊》(2020)、與多位藝術家共同創作並於北角(東)渡 輪碼頭展出的跨媒界體驗式裝置《待渡》(2021)、分別於中環 9 號碼頭和合舍展出 的聲境裝置作品《放空做夢》音樂椅和《放空做夢》空間(2021)、為敲擊襄於 ArtisTree 舉行的「襄音操場」展覽創作的互動聲境作品(2023)以及曾於英國倫敦薩 奇美術館(Saatchi Gallery)展出的版畫作品《Scintillating Hearts》(2022)。2024 年 3 月至 8 月，他應邀成為由敲擊襄策展的展覽「襄見」的首席藝術家，在油街藝術空 間展出三件裝置作品:《四象》(2024)、《圈》(2016-24)和《聆聽室》(2024)。 最近，他的多媒體裝置《夜》(2024)則於中國成都市美術館的「Through the Lens of ...」展覽中展出。

他持英國蘇塞克斯大學作曲博士學位，並獲香港藝術發展局頒發 2011 年度藝術新秀獎。 2017-19 年曾任香港管弦樂團藝術策劃總監。

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