Nicholas Kenyon
Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon, CBE (born 23 February 1951, Cheshire), is a British music administrator, editor and writer on music.
Responsible for the
Education and career
Educated at St Bede's College, Manchester, Kenyon played bassoon with Stockport Youth Orchestra, before going up to read history at Balliol College, Oxford.
After
In 1992, he was appointed Controller,
Kenyon has been a member of the Board of Arts Council England, and previously of the Board of
Honours
Appointed a
Awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy in 2011,[5] Sir Nicholas is a member of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.[6]
Publications
Amongst Kenyon's publications are The BBC Symphony Orchestra: the first 50 years (1982), the biography Simon Rattle: from Birmingham to Berlin (2001), and the Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart (2005) and Faber Pocket Guide to Bach (2011). He edited the influential Authenticity and Early Music (1987), and the BBC Proms Guides to Great Symphonies, Great Concertos, Great Choral Works and Great Orchestral works. In 2021 he published The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition (2021).
“Rule Britannia” discussion
In 2020 Kenyon commented on a controversy about whether
References
- ^ www.spodemusicweek.co.uk
- ^ The Radio Academy "Fellows" Archived 24 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "No. 56070". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2000. pp. 7–8.
- ^ "No. 58557". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2007. p. 1.
- ^ "The British Academy President's Medal". British Academy. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ www.wcom.org.uk
- ^ "Proms conductor derides Britannia". BBC News. 1 July 2002. Retrieved 3 April 2007.
- ^ Tapper (August 2020). "Rule, Britannia! row is 'a laughable irrelevance', says former Proms chief".
- ^ "Rees-Mogg plays Rule, Britannia! in Commons". 3 September 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2020.