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| name = Clemency Burton-Hill | image = Clemency Burton-Hill 2.jpg | caption = Burton-Hill at the Hay Festival, Wales, 2018 | birth_name = Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|07|01|df=yes}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | othername = Clemmie Burton-Hill; Clemmie Roscoe | occupation = Broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist, violinist and former actress | education = St Paul's Girls' School Westminster School | alma mater = Magdalene College, Cambridge | yearsactive = 1992–present | employer = BBC | spouse = {{marriage|James Roscoe|2008}} | children = 2 sons | father = Humphrey Burton }}Clemency Burton-Hill (born Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill, born 1 July 1981) is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist. In her early career she also worked as an actress.[1] Early life and careerBurton-Hill was born in London, on 1 July 1981, the daughter of the BBC's first head of music and arts, Humphrey Burton and Gillian Hawser, an agent. The couple were never married and Burton-Hill did not grow up with her father.[2] She held scholarships at St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School before reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she took a Double First. Burton-Hill is also a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} BroadcastingBurton-Hill began her broadcasting career in 2008 as a member of the live television presenting team at the Proms for BBC Four and BBC Two. She has continued to present at the Proms since then, interviewing major artists including Philip Glass, Joshua Bell, Marin Alsop, Quincy Jones and Daniel Barenboim. Since 2015 she has presented coverage of the Last Night of The Proms. She has been the television host of the BBC's biannual competition BBC Young Musician since 2010. In 2009 Burton-Hill began presenting BBC Radio 3's classical music weekend breakfast programme. In December 2013, she replaced Sara Mohr-Pietsch as the co-presenter of Radio 3's weekday Breakfast programme.[3] She has also presented a wide range of other programmes for the network, including live concerts, a weekly broadcast from Wigmore Hall, and the New Generation Artists strand, which supports emerging international artists early in their career. She has also written and presented a number of critically acclaimed music documentaries on BBC television including ‘Stradivarius and Me’, and ‘Who’s Yehudi,’ which celebrated the centenary of Yehudi Menuhin, with whom she also took violin lessons as a teenager. Between 2009 and the show ending in 2015 she was the performing arts reporter for The Culture Show on BBC Two television, presenting more than 30 films about classical music, opera, jazz, theatre and books. Since 2015, Burton-Hill has been hosting the Royal Opera House’s cinema relays, broadcasting live to over 1,000 cinemas around the globe, and she is a regular host of their 'Insights' education programme, broadcasting to a live audience and on YouTube. Journalism and writingBurton-Hill's first job in journalism was as a staff writer at Vogue and she has since written for many major UK publications, including The Economist, The FT Weekend, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Times Literary Supplement, Elle, and The Mail on Sunday. Her subjects range from the arts to artificial intelligence. She has been the music columnist for BBC Culture[4] since 2013 and is BBC Music Magazine's chief interviewer. She was previously the UK's youngest broadsheet columnist, at The Daily Telegraph; a contributing editor for The Spectator; and a columnist at Total Politics and The Liberal magazines. In January 2009 Burton-Hill's first novel, The Other Side of the Stars, was published by Headline Review, a division of Hodder Headline. She then signed a new two-book deal with Headline, and All The Things You Are was published in October 2013.[5] In October 2017 her first non-fiction book, Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day was published, by Headline Home, also a division of Hodder Headline. The book has since been sold around the world, and the United States edition was published in November 2018 by Harper Wave, a division of Harper Collins. Live eventsClemency is a frequent host of live events, panels and debates for organisations such as the Hay Festival and Intelligence Squared, regularly appearing at major arts venues including the Barbican Centre, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, the National Theatre and Old Vic Theatre. MusicClemency began playing the violin in childhood, studying with Helen Brunner and Rodney Friend. She has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral violinist, in some of the world's leading concert halls, including La Scala, Milan, the Musikverein, Vienna, London's Barbican Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. She has toured with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, as an honorary violinist. In 2005 Burton-Hill co-founded the multi award-winning chamber ensemble, Aurora Orchestra. ActingBetween 1997 and 2007 Burton-Hill worked as an actress in film and television productions, appearing in Dream Team (1997–98), The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000), Midsomer Murders (2004), Supernova (2005), Hustle (2006), and playing the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals (2007), in which her cast-mates included Matt Smith, Andrea Riseborough and Andrew Buchan. MiscellaneousOn the 2015 Children In Need special edition of the BBC show Only Connect, she appeared alongside David Baddiel and Philip Hensher in the "Music Monkeys" team playing against team "Chess Pieces" made up of Bonnie Greer, Hugh Dennis and A.N.Wilson.[6] She appeared on Pointless Celebrities in December 2013. Personal lifeBurton-Hill married James Roscoe, a British diplomat, in 2008. The couple moved to New York in 2009 where Roscoe was posted to the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York and returned to London in 2013.[2] They have two sons. Burton-Hill is a trustee of the children's education charity Dramatic Need.[7] Filmography
References1. ^{{cite news|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1995197,00.html|title=My week – Clemency Burton-Hill|newspaper=The Observer|date=21 January 2007|accessdate=1 May 2008}} 2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/radio-presenter-novelist-musician-and-actress-welcome-to-the-court-of-clemency-burton-hill-9594063.html|title=Radio presenter, novelist, musician and actress... welcome to the court of Clemency Burton-Hill|last=Curtis|first=Nick|date=9 July 2014|website=Evening Standard|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=9 March 2019}} 3. ^Mark Sweney [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/oct/31/radio-3-breakfast-show-new-presenter-burton-hill "Radio 3 breakfast show to be presented by Clemency Burton-Hill"], theguardian.com, 31 October 2013 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/|title=BBC Culture|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=31 May 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.headline.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780755358267|title=All The Things You Are|website=Headline.co.uk/books|isbn=9780755358267|accessdate=12 October 2017}} 6. ^{{BBC episode|id=b06pjb6j|episode=Children in Need: Music Monkeys v Chess Pieces}} 7. ^{{EW charity|1119443|Dramatic Need}} External links{{Commons category}}
21 : 1981 births|Living people|Actresses from London|Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge|Alumni of the Royal College of Music|BBC Radio 3 presenters|English classical violinists|Women violinists|English female singers|English film actresses|English journalists|English television actresses|English voice actresses|People educated at St Paul's Girls' School|People educated at Westminster School, London|Singers from London|Writers from London|21st-century English singers|21st-century women singers|Women radio presenters|21st-century classical violinists |
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