27 Facts About Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Margaret Greatrex Burton-Hill was born on 1981 and is an English broadcaster, author, novelist, journalist and violinist.

The couple did not marry and Clemency Burton-Hill grew up, near central London, with her mother, alongside two older half-brothers.

Clemency Burton-Hill got to know her father only in her twenties, although they became close.

Clemency Burton-Hill held scholarships at St Paul's Girls' School and Westminster School before reading English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she took a Double First.

Clemency Burton-Hill is a former scholar at the Royal College of Music, where she was the recipient of the Hugh Bean Violin Prize.

Clemency Burton-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.

Clemency Burton-Hill has continued to present at the Proms since then, interviewing major artists including Philip Glass, Joshua Bell, Marin Alsop, Quincy Jones and Daniel Barenboim.

Clemency Burton-Hill was the television host of the BBC's biannual competition BBC Young Musician from 2010 to 2018.

In 2009, Clemency Burton-Hill began presenting BBC Radio 3's classical music weekend breakfast programme.

Clemency Burton-Hill has 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.

Clemency Burton-Hill has 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 took violin lessons as a teenager.

Since 2015, Clemency 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.

In May 2018, Clemency Burton-Hill took on the newly-created role of Creative Director, Music and Arts, at WQXR-FM in New York, the leading classical radio station in the United States.

In July 2018, Clemency Burton-Hill began hosting a weekly podcast for BBC Radio 3 called 'Classical Fix' in which she introduces music fans to a variety of classical music and gets their feedback.

Clemency Burton-Hill has been the music columnist for BBC Culture since 2013 and is BBC Music Magazine's chief interviewer.

Clemency Burton-Hill 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.

Clemency Burton-Hill then signed a new two-book deal with Headline, and All The Things You Are was published in October 2013.

Clemency Burton-Hill 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.

Clemency Burton-Hill began playing the violin in childhood, studying with Helen Brunner and Rodney Friend.

Clemency Burton-Hill 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.

Clemency Burton-Hill has toured with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, as an honorary violinist.

Between 1992 and 2012 Clemency Burton-Hill worked as an actress in film and television productions, appearing in The Higher Mortals, Dream Team, The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, Midsomer Murders, Supernova, Hustle, and playing the regular role of Sophie Montgomery in Party Animals, in which her cast-mates included Matt Smith, Andrea Riseborough and Andrew Buchan.

Clemency Burton-Hill is a trustee of the children's education charity Dramatic Need.

Clemency Burton-Hill has recovered with the help of music-based occupational therapy.

On 20 January 2021 the first interview with Clemency Burton-Hill, who was learning to speak again, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.

Clemency Burton-Hill interviewed Elizabeth Day for her Classical Fix podcast in August 2021.

Clemency Burton-Hill was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting and journalism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.