Education
After attending Street Bede"s College, Manchester, and playing bassoon with Stockport Youth Orchestra, Kenyon studied history at Balliol College, Oxford.
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Nicholas Kenyon
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He was responsible for the British Broadcasting Corporation Proms 1996-2007 following which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. 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.
On returning to the United Kingdom he became music critic for The Times, then Chief Music Critic of The Observer.
He was also Music Editor of The Listener and Editor of the journal Early Music. In 1992 he was appointed Controller, British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 and was appointed Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation Proms from the 1996 season.
In 2000 his title changed to Controller British Broadcasting Corporation Proms, Live Events and Television Classical Music. In February 2007 he was announced as the Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in the City of London, in succession to Sir John Tusa.
He is also a Fellow of The Radio Academy.
In the 2001 New Year Honours he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to music and millennium broadcasting. He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours.
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