Nicholas Kenyon has been Director of the BBC Proms since 1996. He was a music critic for
The New Yorker, Times and
Observer, and was Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998. In 2001 he wrote a highly praised new edition of his biography of Simon Rattle (Faber). He is now Controller, BBC Proms, Live Events and Television Classical Music, and was appointed a CBE in 2001.