She’ll be presenting extra BBC Proms throughout the 2023 season, delighting viewers along with her pleasant method and welcoming, accessible means of discussing classical music. However what can we learn about BBC Proms presenter Katie Derham?

Who’s Katie Derham?

Katie Derham is likely one of the BBC’s main presenters in classical music broadcasting. She has been a key determine on BBC Radio 3 for a few years, however might be greatest referred to as being the face of the BBC Proms as an everyday presenter on the competition’s TV protection, which she has introduced since 2010.

How did Katie Derham’s profession on the BBC begin?

Her profession started on the BBC as a researcher on BBC Radio 4’s programme Moneybox, having graduated from the College of Cambridge, the place she studied Economics. She then labored as a presenter on a couple of different monetary programmes, together with Radio 5 Dwell’s Cash Examine. Her segue from radio to TV started as a reporter on movie critic Barry Norman’s cinema evaluate programme, Movie…, earlier than becoming a member of ITV as its youngest newscaster on British nationwide tv at simply 27.

In 2017, Derham joined Radio 3’s drive-time programme In Tune with Sean Rafferty. She now presents Sound of Dance on Radio 3, the place she explores the connection between music and dance. She can also be on the roster of presenters of Radio 3’s Afternoon Live performance.

Through the BBC Proms season yearly, Derham presents a lot of the competition’s TV protection in addition to its weekly journal present Proms Additional each Saturday on BBC Two.

She has additionally introduced documentaries for the BBC, together with The Woman from Ipanema: Brazil, Bossa Nova and the Seashore.

Derham joined the conducting actuality competitors Maestro alongside Sue Perkins, Bradley Walsh, Goldie and Alex James.

She was partnered up with Anton Du Beke on the 2015 season of Strictly Come Dancing. She helped Anton Du Beke attain the ultimate for the very first time, however they misplaced out to Coronation Road actor Georgia Could Foote, Eastenders actor Kellie Vivid and The Needed singer Jay McGuinness.

She was a part of the 2017 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Particular, which she received with dancer Brendan Cole.

In 2017, Katie Derham was a choose on the Ladies’s Prize for Fiction, alongside comic Sara Pascoe, journalist Sam Baker and writer Aminatta Forna. The winner of that 12 months’s prize was Naomi Alderman, for her dystopian novel The Energy.

Derham now lives in Sussex along with her husband John Vincent, who’s the CEO and co-founder of quick meals chain Leon Eating places – and their youngsters Natasha and Eleanor. The pair married in 1999, once they met at college.

Does Katie Derham play an instrument?

Katie Derham began taking part in the violin aged eight, an instrument she picked again up once more in 2010 after a 20-year hiatus for the Sky Arts programme First Love, which noticed her relearning the violin for a live performance at London’s Kings’ Place with the Fidelio Trio.

Which Proms will Katie Derham be presenting in 2023?

We all know that Katie will probably be presenting the Final Night time of the Proms this 12 months, reside from the Royal Albert Corridor. This 12 months’s Final Night time of the Proms will probably be performed by Marin Alsop and also will characteristic soprano Lise Davidsen, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, plus the BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Refrain and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Katie is joined within the presenting line-up by Clive Myrie (who will current the First Night time of the Proms), plus newsreader Huw Edwards and BBC Europe editor Katya Adler. We’ll have updates on this 12 months’s different Proms presenters quickly.

Take a look at the full schedule for this 12 months’s BBC Proms right here.

She could current extra Proms: watch this house or examine our information to when to observe the 2023 Proms on TV.

Katie Derham was BBC Music Journal‘s cowl star in July 2018, when she welcomed audiences again to the BBC Proms.