Nicholas Kenyon – Talk

Wednesday 4th October, 2023

7:00 pm

The Green Room @ The Grand, The Leas

Talk

Nicholas Kenyon

Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon CBE is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms in 1996–2007, after which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. In September 2021 he left to become opera critic of the Telegraph and a visiting scholar in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.

The Pied Pipers of early music

A talk by Nicholas Kenyon

There’s been a revolution in our musical taste and our understanding of the past in recent decades. Music from distant centuries is now as accessible to us as the music of today or yesterday. How did this shift come about, and who were the pioneers in changing our taste?

£5 on the door