Sir Nicholas Kenyon
Sir Nicholas Kenyon was Managing Director of the Barbican Centre 2007 - 2021. He was Controller, BBC Radio 3 1992-8, and Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007. Previously he was a music critic for The New Yorker, The Times and Observer, and editor of Early Music 1983-92. He ran the BBC’s Live Events and TV Classical Music departments, including the Queen’s Jubilee Concerts of 2002. He has lectured widely and published books on Bach, Mozart, Simon Rattle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and early music. He edited The City of London: a Companion Guide, and his most recent book is The Life of Music. He is now a Distinguished Affiliate Scholar of Pembroke College Cambridge, researching the history of the early music revival, and is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College Oxford. He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours, and in 2011 received the British Academy President’s medal for outstanding service to the arts and humanities.