Michael Aron

Michael Aron is in his 27th year as senior political correspondent of NJN News. In August 2008, he was appointed Interim Director of NJN News and Public Affairs. In 2008 he was named the #1 political reporter in the state by the website InTheLobby.net and was named one of the 101 most influential people in New Jersey by New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

• Reporters Roundtable

Alec Baldwin

The multi-award-winning screen and stage actor Alec Baldwin made his Philharmonic debut narrating the New York Philharmonic’s Inside the Music program on October 10, 2008. Alec has been hosting New York Philharmonic This Week since 2009.

• New York Philharmonic This Week

Michael Barone

Building upon a curiosity which began in his teens, Michael Barone has devoted himself to the pipe organ for more than 50 years. Pipedreams began in 1982, and it remains the only nationally distributed weekly radio program exploring the art of the pipe organ.

• Pipedreams

Annie Bergen

Annie Bergen's reports on film, music, theater, books and art have won several awards, including one from American Women in Radio and Television and an "Outstanding Feature Story" award from the NYSBA. Annie is now featured on various WQXR programs.

• Overnight Music

Fred Child

Fred Child, a classically trained pianist with a flare for percussion, emcees many live national concert broadcasts, contributes to All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and hosts Performance Today and Live from Lincoln Center.

• 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.

• Concerts from The Frick Collection

• Overnight Music

Elliott Forrest

Elliott Forrest's experience as producer and host of numerous radio and television programs, including The Late Late Radio Show, helped hone his one-on-one interviewing prowess and shape his award-winning broadcasts.

• Elliott Forrest

• On Wings Of Song

David Garland

David Garland's radio programs journey through ecletic music while illuminating connections among diverse musical styles. An insighful interviewer and composer, Garland believes in radio's unique power to bring listeners and music together.

• David Garland

• Movies on the Radio

Nimet Habachy

With a background in theater and French, Nimet spent several years working with the New York City Opera before becoming a host and programmer for WQXR. Today, she navigates New York's art scene as a free lance writer and interviewer.

• Overnight Music

Margaret Juntwait

Margaret Juntwait's experience as a lyric soprano and work on Sirius, PBS, and WNYC broadcasts propelled her into the prized position as host of the Met Opera broadcasts. She is only the third person to hold the position since the series launched in 1931.

• Metropolitan Opera

Gilbert Kaplan

Gilbert Kaplan founded the award-winning business magazine Institutional Investor and is a leading international authority on the music of Gustav Mahler. His conducting has won him honors and acclaim around the world.

• Mad About Music

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor's old style variety show and fake small-town gossip and news stories on A Prarie Home Companion finds the humor in the simple and and the luminary in the humble. The Writer's Almanac brings poetry to life for the common man.

• The Writer's Almanac

Brian Lauritzen

• Los Angeles Philharmonic

Naomi Lewin

A formidable narrator and mezzo-soprano, Naomi Lewin was a pioneer in internet radio. Her award-winning radio documentaries are regularly featured on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. Her program Classics for Kids endeavors to demystify classical music.

• Naomi Lewin

Bill McGlaughlin

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 McGlaughlin's insight and magnanimous charm are a cornerstone of classical broadcasting.

• Exploring Music

Terrance McKnight

Terrance McKnight's varied musical experience, from glee club soloist and accomplished pianist, to professor at Morehouse College, and finally as producer and host of several music programs for public radio, opens his listeners' minds and ears.

• Aspen in August

• Q2 with Terrance McKnight

• Terrance McKnight

Kerry Nolan

After starting her radio career as a producer at the legendary Boston rock station, WBCN, Kerry Nolan joined WNYC in 1993 as local host of Weekend All Things Considered. Later, she became local host for Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday. She has been a substitute host on both the Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate shows, as well as sitting in for Brooke Gladstone on NPR's “On The Media”. She also spent many late nights filing breaking news stories for NPR. Kerry left WNYC in 2005 to host a lifestyle talk show for the Martha Stewart channel on Sirius/XM and returned to her news roots at WNYC in 2008. She is now delighted to be sitting in the morning anchor chair at WQXR, where she keeps the listeners on top of the day’s events in between what she calls “glorious” classical music pieces presented by Jeff Spurgeon. Kerry is also an accomplished cook and baker, and every now and then she brings in homemade treats to a hungry early-morning newsroom. She lives on the Jersey shore with her husband, son and a dog who she says takes up way too much real estate.

• The Arts File

Christopher O'Riley

From his groundbreaking transcriptions of Radiohead to his unforgettable interpretations of classic and new repertoire, pianist Christopher O'Riley has redefined the possibilities of classical music.

• From the Top

David Sanger

Pulitzer Prize-winning editor David E. Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, specializing in national affairs, U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation and globalization.

• WQXR's The Washington Report

Robert Sherman

Juilliard professor, music critic and columnist for The New York Times, New York City native and concert host Robert Sherman spans classical and folk music as host of The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase on WQXR and Woody's Children on WFUV.

• The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase

Nadia Sirota

Commanding yet eloquent violist Nadia Sirota premieres the works of the most talented composers of her generation with her numerous collaborative ensembles. Alex Ross described her work at WNYC and WQXR as “radio we can believe in.”

• Nadia Sirota on Q2

Jeff Spurgeon

Jeff Spurgeon has been the guiding voice for a broadcast journalism class in a high school in Queens and several New York City choirs, hosting numerous concerts around the world and working as a radio host and newscaster for over 30 years.

• Jeff Spurgeon

Steve Sullivan

Musician and broadcaster Steve Sullivan has interviewed thousands of people in his two decades of experience at WNYC and WQXR, including the long running Around New York daily interview and performance show.

• Overnight Music

Midge Woolsey

Midge Woolsey's grounding in opera and musical theater led her to become a producer and host for public television and radio, proudly serving the tristate community with her soothing presence for over 30 years.

• Midge Woolsey