The Faber Pocket Guide to Bach
Sir Nicholas Kenyon, CBE, has been Managing Director of the Barbican Centre since  2007. He was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007, and  Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998. He has written The Faber Pocket Guide to Mozart, the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the biography of Simon Rattle, edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music and co-edited Proms: A New History. He was knighted in 2008. He lives in London with his wife and four children.