Clemency

Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill is a TV presenter, musician and writer. She can often be seen on  BBC2’s Culture Show and she’s a regular presenter of the weekend Breakfast show on BBC Radio 3.

She fronted BBC’s Young Musician Of The Year in 2010, Leeds International Piano Competition 2009 (BBC4), Visionaries (BBC World) and Mission: Madagascar (Sky).

She has also presented BBC coverage of The Proms.  
 

Clemency has been a guest on news and current affairs programmes, including Sky News; (Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes and Boulton & Co with Adam Boulton), The Andrew Marr Show, BBC Radio 5 Live and LBC Radio. She has appeared as a panelist on  Question Time, The Election Special (BBC), and The Sunday Edition with Andrew Rawnsley (ITV). Elsewhere on the airwaves, Clemency has contributed to Private Passions (BBC Radio 3), Soul Music (BBC Radio 4), and The Essay (Radio 3). 2010 saw Clemency make her US presenting debut on the twice-weekly magazine show Plum Daily for Plum TV in New York.

 
Clemency is a professional violinist. She has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician all over the world.

After graduating from Cambridge she joined the fashion features desk at Vogue as a staff writer aged 22, and the following year became the UK’s youngest broadsheet columnist for The Daily Telegraph. She has since contributed to: The Observer, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Grazia, Elle, Time Out, New Statesman and Spectator.

Clemency’s first novel, The Other Side of the Stars, was published by Headline Review in 2009 and she has signed a further two-book deal. Her next novel will be out in 2012.

Getting involved in international humanitarian issues has led Clemency to work primarily in the Middle East and Africa for various causes. She has been an active member of the Choir of London and their work in the West Bank and Occupied Palestinian Territories since 2004. She has worked on music and education projects in South Africa, Rwanda, Kenya and Sierra Leone. She is a Trustee of the charity Dramatic Need, which enables volunteers from the arts to work in impoverished rural communities in Africa. Since 2009 she has been involved with The Amnesty International Media Awards and is also on the advisory board of the organisation Index on Censorship.

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