Sir Nicholas Kenyon
Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 23 February 1951, in Cheshire) is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms in 1996–2007, after which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. In September 2021 he left to become opera critic of the Telegraph and a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge. Education and career Having attended St Bede's College, Manchester and played bassoon with Stockport Youth Orchestra, Kenyon studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxford. After graduating, he worked for the English Bach Festival, and as a freelance writer on music. From 1979 to 1982 he was a music critic for ''The New Yorker''. He then returned to the UK as the music critic for ''The Times'', then List of chief music critics, chief music critic of ''The Observer''. He was also music editor of ''The Listener (magazine) ...
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