2020 Festival Artists | Australian Festival of Chamber Music

Petroc Trelawny is supported by Table 3 - Sandra Yates AO and Michael Skinner, Dr Kay Jaumees, Kenneth Saxby, Roger and Ann Smith, Maryanne Smith, Dr Anne Tanner

Petroc Trelawny is one of the best-known voices on BBC Radio Three - where he presents the daily Breakfast programme. This summer saw his twentieth consecutive season introducing BBC Proms on radio and television. He presents the live BBC broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert, and in June hosted BBC Television’s ‘Cardiff Singer of the World’ for the eleventh time. Last year he presented the international telecast of Eurovision Young Musician to more than two dozen countries from Edinburgh; this August he hosted Eurovision Choir live from Gothenburg. Petroc has introduced TV profiles of arts figures including Dame Fanny Waterman, Julian Bream and Yehudi Menuhin. He has presented performances by the Royal Ballet shown in cinemas around the world, and last September anchored note-by-note coverage of the Leeds Piano Competition for Medici.tv. In 2015 he hosted the first ever BBC Proms Australia, a week of concerts and recitals in Melbourne broadcast live on ABC Radio; earlier this year he presented BBC Proms Dubai at the new Dubai Opera House, for the second time.

A proud Cornishman, Petroc’s early career includes broadcasting in Hong Kong for the British Forces Broadcasting Service, being part of the launch team for Classic FM and London News Radio, presenting breakfast on BBC Radio Manchester, and working as a presenter for RTE in Ireland. He is President of the Lennox Berkeley Society, Luton Music and the Three Spires Singers and a trustee of BZAM – a charity supporting the work of the Zimbabwe Academy of Music in Bulawayo. As well as concerts and opera he loves travel, food and wine, cinema, books and theatre.