RPS Music Awards Hosts 2012
Katie Derham is a presenter on BBC Radio 3’s Afternoon on 3 and Breakfast programmes. As of July 2010 she has also been fronting the coverage of the Proms for BBC Two, and Radio 3 following her move from ITN.
After reading Economics at Magdelene College, Cambridge, Katie started at the BBC as a researcher on Radio 4's Moneybox and Financial World Tonight. After stints on business programmes like Moneycheck on Five Live, Business Breakfast and Working Lunch, she became a reporter on Barry Norman's Film 96 and 97.
In 1998 she joined ITN as the Media and Arts Editor for ITV News and, at the age of 27, became the youngest newscaster on British national television since ITN's creation in 1955. For five years she covered showbiz events around the world and hosted the Classical Brit Awards four times. She then presented ITV Lunchtime News for six years before taking a leading role as an anchor in the coverage of elections, royal weddings and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In addition to her TV career, Katie hosted Classic FM’s Hall of Fame concert for eight years and has presented Traveller’s Tree on Radio for the last two years. She has also been a judge for various literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Lost Booker Prize. In 2008, she took on the challenge of trying to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra for BBC Two’s Maestro. Katie is married with two children.
Petroc Trelawny regularly presents the classical magazine programme Music Matters, Radio 3's evening topical drive-time show In Tune and concerts in Radio 3 Live in Concert. Raised and educated in Cornwall, he started his career at BBC Radio Devon soon becoming one of the nation’s youngest newsreaders. 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 1992 he returned to London to join Classic FM at its opening, where he presented the afternoon show. From London he moved to Manchester in 1997 as co presenter of the BBC GMR Breakfast Show, and also started anchoring live broadcasts of concerts for Radio 3 before joining the station full time.
As well as presenting In Tune, Petroc has introduced hundreds of chamber music and symphony concerts for Radio Three. He is a regular presenter for the BBC Proms from the Royal Albert Hall and his major documentary series for RTE Lyric FM in Ireland, ‘Max and St Magnus – An Orkney Saga’, won a prestigious ESB Media Award.
On television Petroc has been seen extensively on BBC2 and BBC4. He regularly presents ‘Cardiff Singer of the World’.
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 chairman of the Lennox Berkeley Society and is particularly fond of the operas of Britten and Mozart, the symphonies of Shostakovich, and the piano sonatas of Beethoven.