Sir Nicholas Kenyon

Sir Nicholas Kenyon was Managing Director of the Barbican Centre 2007–21, Controller of BBC Radio 3 and Director of the BBC Proms 1996–2007 and is currently Distinguished Affiliate Scholar in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. He has been music critic for The New Yorker and The Observer, music editor of The Listener and editor of Early Music and is currently opera critic for the Daily Telegraph. Among his books are the Faber Pocket Guide to both Bach and Mozart and The Life of Music (2021), and he was editor of Authenticity & Early Music and The City of London: A Companion Guide. He was awarded a knighthood in 2008.