Hosts

Alec Baldwin

Screen and stage actor Alec Baldwin will host The New York Philharmonic This Week beginning with the 2009–10 season. He received the 2009 and 2008 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his starring role in the television series 30 Rock.

• New York Philharmonic This Week

Michael Barone

Michael Barone hosts Pipedreams, which airs on Saturday mornings at 6am and Sunday nights at 11pm on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• Pipedreams

Annie Bergen

Annie previously served as WQXR's morning host from 2004-2009.

• Overnight Music

Fred Child

Fred Child is the host of American Public Media's Performance Today, the most popular classical music radio show in America. Child is also the commentator and announcer for Live from Lincoln Center, the only live performing arts series on television.

• Performance Today

Helga Davis

Vocalist and performance artist Helga Davis mixes rock, jazz, soul, and funk to create her own unique brand of music that defies boundaries.

• Overnight Music

Elliott Forrest

Elliott Forrest hosts WQXR 105.9 FM on Saturdays and Sundays from 7am to noon.

• Saturday Brunch with Elliott Forrest

• Sunday Brunch With Elliott Forrest

David Garland

Evening Host: Friday through Sunday, 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

• David Garland

• Movies on the Radio

Nimet Habachy

Nimet Habachy grew up in Cairo, Egypt listening to the Call to Prayer sung by the muezzin in the Minaret, Schubert played at the piano by her mother and Ethel Merman singing “I’m quick on the trigger with targets not much bigger than a pin point on No. l,” from Irving Berlin’s CALL ME MADAM. When she arrived in America in the 1950’s, her ambition in life became to be one of the Siamese children in THE KING AND I. Wrong for the part, she settled for a life backstage at the opera house and on the radio.

• Overnight Music

Margaret Juntwait

Margaret Juntwait hosts Metropolitan Opera, which airs Saturdays at 1pm on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• Metropolitan Opera

Gilbert Kaplan

Gilbert Kaplan is a leading international authority on the music of Gustav Mahler, and the author/editor of The Mahler Album (Abrams), an illustrated biography with more than 300 photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures of Mahler.

• Mad About Music

Naomi Lewin

Naomi Lewin hosts weekdays from 3pm to 7pm on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• Naomi Lewin

Bill McGlaughlin

For millions of music fans, the intimate voice of Bill McGlaughlin signals another adventure into the heart of music-making. Whether he's chatting with one of the great string quartets, hosting an intermission at the Met or seated at the piano with a Beethoven score, Bill's insight and magnanimous charm are a cornerstone of classical broadcasting.

• Exploring Music

Terrance McKnight

As a WQXR evening host, Terrance McKnight brings to the position wide and varied musical experience that includes performance, teaching and radio broadcast.

• Q2 with Terrance McKnight

• Terrance McKnight

Kerry Nolan

WNYC News Host & WNYC/WQXR Morning News Anchor

• The Arts File

Christopher O'Riley

Christopher O'Riley hosts From the Top, which airs Sundays at 10pm on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• From the Top

David Sanger

David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, where he writes about national affairs, U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation and globalization.

• WQXR's The Washington Report

Robert Sherman

New York City native Robert Sherman is well-known to radio listeners as the host of The McGraw Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase on WQXR, a show now in its 32^nd season.

• McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase

Nadia Sirota

Hailed by Time Out New York as one of New York’s “brightest, busiest players, violist Nadia Sirota has been praised for her “command and eloquence,” (Boston Globe) and for having “energy, fluidity and an ear for electronic coloration” (New York Times). She is best known for her unique interpretations of new scores and for commissioning and premiering works by some of the most talented composers of her generation, including Marcos Balter, Caleb Burhans, Judd Greenstein, and Nico Muhly.

• Nadia Sirota on Q2

Jeff Spurgeon

Jeff Spurgeon hosts weekdays from 5:30am to 10am on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• Jeff Spurgeon

Steve Sullivan

Musician/broadcaster Steve Sullivan returns to WQXR after nearly two decades of programs at WNYC, which included the long running Around New York daily interview/performance show.

• Overnight Music

Midge Woolsey

Midge Woolsey hosts weekdays from 10am to 3pm on WQXR 105.9 FM.

• Midge Woolsey