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 Petroc Trelawny Petroc Trelawny joined Radio 3 in 1998. He has been co-host of ‘In Tune’, the stations drive-time arts magazine, since 2002. Raised and educated in Cornwall, he started his career at BBC Radio Devon, as a reporter and presenter, at the age of nineteen hosting the stations major news programming, and soon after becoming one of the nations youngest newsreaders, presenting bulletins for BBC Plymouth’s ‘Spotlight’. Having read the news for British Forces Radio during the first Gulf War, he then joined the network as a presenter in Hong Kong, spending a year broadcasting to the military in what was then still a British colony. After a board-member of Classic FM heard him at work in Hong Kong, Petroc was invited to return to London to join the nascent commercial network, where he presented the afternoon show from stations first day on-air. In 1994 he was invited to join London News Radio, and hosted a daily three hour newstalk magazine, where guests included cabinet ministers and senior businessmen alongside Dame Edna and Gore Vidal. In 1997, he co-presented (with R5 Live’s Victoria Derbyshire) the BBC GMR Breakfast Show in Manchester, covering the cities recovery from the IRA Bombing, and its planning for the Commonwealth Games. While in Manchester he started anchoring live broadcasts of concerts for Radio 3, joining the station full time the following year, and returning to London. As well as presenting breakfast, and subsequently ‘In Tune’, Petroc has introduced hundreds of broadcasts of chamber music and symphony concerts for Radio Three, presented theme nights and documentaries, and interviewed many of the worlds leading conductors, composers, performers and singers. 2007 will be his tenth season presenting the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall. He also broadcast for RTE Lyric FM in Ireland, where his major documentary series ‘Max and St Magnus – An Orkney Saga’ won a prestigious ESB Media Award. On Television Petroc has been seen extensively on BBC2 and BBC4. This year he has presented his fifth series of ‘Cardiff Singer of the World’. Last year he once again hosted the Leeds International Piano Competition, and this summer will return to TV coverage of the BBC Proms. As a writer Petroc has regularly contributed to The Spectator, The Irish Times, The Catholic Herald and BBC Music Magazine. Petroc is chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society, a charitable trust whose aim is to promote performance of the English composer’s music. Petroc lives in central London. As well as music his passions include Cornwall, travel, food and literature. His musical tastes are wide, from early choral music to Sondheim musicals. He is particularly fond of the operas of Britten and Mozart, the symphonies of Shostakovich, and the piano sonatas of Beethoven. |
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