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Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill (born 1981) is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress. In January 2020 she suffered an AVM
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and underwent emergency surgery in New York City. She continues to work on her recovery.


Early life and career

Burton-Hill was born in
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, London, in 1981, the daughter of
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, the BBC's first head of music and arts, and Gillian Hawser, an agent. The couple did not marry and Burton-Hill grew up, near central London, with her mother, alongside two older half-brothers. She got to know her father only in her twenties, although they became close. She held scholarships at
St Paul's Girls' School St Paul's Girls' School is an independent day school for girls, aged 11 to 18, located in Brook Green, Hammersmith, in West London, England. History St Paul's Girls' School was founded by the Worshipful Company of Mercers in 1904, using part o ...
and
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before reading English at
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, where she took a Double First. Burton-Hill is also a former scholar at the
Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a music school, conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the Undergraduate education, undergraduate to the Doctorate, doctoral level in a ...
, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.


Broadcasting

Burton-Hill began her broadcasting career in 2008 as a member of the live television presenting team at the
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for
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and
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. She has continued to present at the Proms since then, interviewing major artists including
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,
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,
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and
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. Since 2015, she has presented coverage of the ''Last Night of The Proms''. She was the television host of the
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's biannual competition
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from 2010 to 2018. In 2009, Burton-Hill began presenting
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's classical music weekend breakfast programme. In December 2013, she replaced
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as the co-presenter of Radio 3's weekday ''Breakfast'' programme. She has also presented a wide range of other programmes for the network, including live concerts, a weekly broadcast from
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, and the New Generation Artists strand, which supports emerging international artists early in their career. She has also written and presented a number of critically acclaimed music documentaries on BBC television including ''Stradivarius and Me'', and ''Whoโ€™s Yehudi'', which celebrated the centenary of
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, with whom she also took violin lessons as a teenager. Between 2009 and the show ending in 2015, she was the performing arts reporter for ''
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'' on
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television, presenting more than 30 films about classical music, opera, jazz, theatre and books. Since 2015, Burton-Hill has been hosting the
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โ€™s cinema relays, broadcasting live to over 1,000 cinemas around the globe, and she is a regular host of their 'Insights' education programme, broadcasting to a live audience and on YouTube. In May 2018, Burton-Hill took on the newly-created role of Creative Director, Music and Arts, at
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in New York, the leading classical radio station in the United States. In July 2018, Burton-Hill began hosting a weekly podcast for
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called 'Classical Fix' in which she introduces music fans to a variety of classical music and gets their feedback.


Other activities


Journalism and writing

Burton-Hill's first job in journalism was as a staff writer at ''
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'' and she has since written for many major UK publications, including ''
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'', ''The FT Weekend'', ''
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'', ''
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the w ...
'', ''
The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
'', ''
The Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
'', ''
The Sunday Telegraph ''The Sunday Telegraph'' is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings. It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', kn ...
'', ''
The Times Literary Supplement ''The Times Literary Supplement'' (''TLS'') is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp. History The ''TLS'' first appeared in 1902 as a supplement to ''The Times'' but became a separate publication i ...
'', ''
Elle ''Elle'' (stylized ''ELLE'') is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, together with culture, society and lifestyle. The title means "she" or "her" in French. ''Elle'' is considered the w ...
'', and ''
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''. Her subjects range from the arts to artificial intelligence. She has been the music columnist for
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since 2013 and is ''
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s chief interviewer. She was previously the UK's youngest broadsheet columnist, at ''
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''; a contributing editor for ''
The Spectator ''The Spectator'' is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world. It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
''; and a columnist at ''
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'' and ''
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'' magazines. In January 2009 Burton-Hill's first novel, ''The Other Side of the Stars'', was published by Headline Review, a division of
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. She then signed a new two-book deal with Headline, and ''All The Things You Are'' was published in October 2013. In October 2017 her first non-fiction book, ''Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day'' was published, by Headline Home, also a division of Hodder Headline. The book has since been sold around the world, and the United States edition was published in November 2018 by Harper Wave, a division of
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. In December 2021 her second non-fiction book, ''Another Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day'' was published with a foreword by
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. The audio book has been recorded by
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.


Live events

Burton-Hill is a frequent host of live events, panels and debates for organisations such as the
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and
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, regularly appearing at major arts venues including the
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, Cadogan Hall,
Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London. Originally called Bechstein Hall, it specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leadin ...
, the National Portrait Gallery, the
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, the
Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the D ...
, the National Theatre and
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.


Music

Burton-Hill began playing the violin in childhood, studying with Helen Brunner and
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. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral violinist, in some of the world's leading concert halls, including
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, the
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, London's
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and
Boston Symphony Hall Symphony Hall is a concert hall located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, opened in 1900. Designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, it was built for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which continues to make the h ...
. She has toured with
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and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, as an honorary violinist.


Acting

Between 1992 and 2012 Burton-Hill worked as an actress in film and television productions, appearing in ''
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'' (1993), ''
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'' (1997โ€“98), ''
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'' (2000), ''
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'' (2004), ''
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'' (2005), '' Hustle'' (2006), and playing the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in '' Party Animals'' (2007), in which her cast-mates included
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, Andrea Riseborough and
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.


Other

On the 2015 Children In Need special edition of the BBC show ''
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'', she appeared alongside
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and
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in the "Music Monkeys" team playing against team "Chess Pieces" made up of
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,
Hugh Dennis Peter Hugh Dennis (born 13 February 1962) is an English comedian, presenter, actor, writer, impressionist and voice-over artist who has appeared in the comedy double act Punt and Dennis with partner Steve Punt. He played Dr Piers Crispin in the ...
and A.N. Wilson. She appeared on ''
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'' in December 2013.


Personal life

Burton-Hill married James Roscoe, a British diplomat, in 2008. The couple moved to New York in 2009 where Roscoe was posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York and returned to London in 2013. Following a further period in NY from 2018 to 2022 the family moved to Washington DC in August 2022. The couple have two sons. Burton-Hill is a trustee of the children's education charity Dramatic Need. On 20 January 2020, she collapsed in New York City after suffering a
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and underwent emergency surgery. Doctors removed half of her skull at
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hospital in Manhattan, and she was unconscious for 17 days; it was uncertain how much of her brain would recover. She has recovered with the help of music-based occupational therapy. On 20 January 2021 the first interview with Burton-Hill, who was learning to speak again, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's ''
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''. She interviewed
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for her ''Classical Fix'' podcast in August 2021. Burton-Hill was appointed
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(MBE) in the
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for services to broadcasting and journalism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.


Filmography


References


External links

*
Presenter page at BBC
for ''
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Biography at Palestine Mozart Festival
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