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Legendary musician Donald Hazelwood dies aged 95: 'A wonderful musician, colleague and friend'

Beloved Australian classical musician Donald Hazelwood has died at the age of 95.

'All of us at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra are enormously saddened by the death of our former Concertmaster, Donald Leslie Grant Hazelwood AO OBE, on Saturday 8 March 2025,' the expansive post began. 'We extend our deepest condolences to the Hazelwood family, and especially to our former colleague and dear friend Jane, a long-serving and much-loved member of the Orchestra’s viola section (1995–2024),' the post read. 'In this role Don guided the orchestra through triumphs (including the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973, and numerous international tours) and hardship, most notably the death of Chief Conductor Stuart Challender in 1991,' the tribute read.

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