Nicholas Kenyon has been Director of the BBC Proms since 1996. He was a music critic for the New Yorker, The Times and the Observer, and was Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998, responsible for the award-winning Radio 3 seasons Fairest Isle and Sounding the Century. He wrote the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music. He is now Controller, BBC Proms, Live Events and Television Classical Music, and was appointed a CBE in 2001. He lives in London with his wife and four children.
