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 Humphrey Burton Humphrey Burton read music and history at Cambridge University and joined the BBC as a sound studio manager in 1955. His work in television began in 1958 when he joined the ground-breaking TV Arts magazine, Monitor. He directed many documentaries and studio features before being made Editor in 1962. In 1964 he supervised a major expansion of music programmes for the opening of BBC2. Humphrey was BBC TV's first Head of Music and Arts Programmes 1965-67. He resumed that position between 1975-81 after an eight-year period in British commercial TV as a founder-member of London Weekend Television. There he edited and presented nearly two hundred editions of ITV's award-winning arts series Aquarius the forerunner of the South Bank Show. In the 1970s, Humphrey developed a second, freelance career as film and TV director for Leonard Bernstein's many musical projects, including documentaries, rehearsals and over 150 filmed concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic and other orchestras. In 1981, aged 50, Humphrey resigned from BBC management to concentrate on his activities as a director and programme presenter, including work in Europe and the USA, in the field of opera, ballet, symphony concerts, galas, competitions and documentaries. For his work as a director, he has won four Emmies and two British Academy awards. As a presenter he has received the Royal Television Society's silver medal and a Sony gold award (for Radio 3's Tanglewood series). Humphrey's recent television productions include seven 'live' relays from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Hansel and Gretel from WNO, Sir Simon Rattle's Farewell Concert with the CBSO, conducting Mahler's Resurrection Symphony 1998, Falstaff with Bryn Terfel from the re-opened Covent Garden in December 99, La Traviata from Covent Garden (BAFTA nomination 95) and three Cardiff Singer of the World competitions. For Radio 3 his credits include Live From Tanglewood, Composer of the Week (Verdi, Barber, Bernstein and Walton), Solti Resounding, Danube Week, Menuhin Tribute, Glenn Gould Evening and the 'Artist in Focus' stranding of Morning Performance. In 1994 Humphrey published his award-winning biography of Leonard Bernstein and a new biography of the late Yehudi Menuhin appeared recently. Humphrey was awarded the CBE in the Millennium Honours. |
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