Career
She is best known today as a founding presenter (1999) of the Sony Gold award winning programme Late Junction, and is internationally recognized for her wide ranging knowledge of music including classical, world, traditional, jazz, expermimental, electronica and choral music She is also particularly known for her many years as presenter of live chamber music concerts, broadcast around Europe, from London’s Wigmore Hall. She has also presented for World Service, Radio 4 and for Radio 6 Music, and has produced documentaries and features ranging from Ragtime Music in Hungary, the repatriation of Bartok’s remains to his homeland, Icelandic contemporary music, the work of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Prokofiev, the statues of Hyde Park.
Her interviewees range from David Sylvian, Jon Anderson, Greg Lake to Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim, January Garbarek.
As curator she has worked extensively with Kings Place in London, curating a 10-day festival of Norwegian arts and music, Scene Norway, in 2008, an Estonian Festival, Eesti Fest, in 2011, and Scene Norway2 in November 2013. Fiona was born in Reading, where she lives, and has two children.
She studied at Liverpool University, The Open University and Reading University and has taught for The Open University and Reading University. Her Master of Arts is in Literature and the Visual Arts 1840-1940.
In her studies she specialised in the Omega Workshops and the writings of Sir Kenneth Clark.
In 2008 Fiona was diagnosed with breast cancer and was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
