We are absolutely delighted that Sir Nicholas Kenyon has agreed to come to talk about his new book ‘The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach’ on the 13th May. We are even more delighted that this will be a prelude to an evening of Bach and His Circle with the London Baroque which has been organised by Richard Phillips, Director of The Leamington Music Festival.  

Sir Nicholas Kenyon became Managing Director of the Barbican Centre in October 2007. He was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007.

As a music critic he wrote for The New Yorker, The Times and Observer, and was editor of Early Music 1983-92. He was appointed Controller of BBC Radio 3 in 1992, and was responsible for the award-winning seasons Fairest Isle and Sounding the Century. He then oversaw the BBC’s programming for the millennium and ran the BBC’s Live Events and TV Classical Music departments, which mounted the Queen’s Jubilee concerts of 2002.

He has continued to write and lecture on the arts, publishing books on Mozart, Simon Rattle, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and early music. He is a board member of English National Opera and Sage Gateshead, a Governor of Wellington College, and a Trustee of the Dartington Hall Trust. He was knighted in the 2008 New Year Honours. He is married with four children and lives in London.

Richard Phillips recently received the annual BAFA Award from The British Arts Festivals Association for
‘Outstanding Contribution to British Arts Festivals’. Richard has run since 1983 over fifty mainly musical festivals
in Leamington and Warwick.

The London Baroque  was formed over thirty years ago in 1978, and enjoys the position of being one of the most experienced and long-lived baroque chamber groups around and is regarded worldwide as one of the foremost exponents of baroque chamber music.

We are grateful to Faber for helping us with the talk. Tickets available shortly.