Hosts
Steve Adubato
Steve currently anchors three PBS broadcasts — Caucus: New Jersey, an Emmy Award-winning public affairs television series; NJ Capitol Report, a news program covering New Jersey political issues on a weekly basis; and One-on-One with Steve Adubato, a compelling program giving insight into today's world through interviews with actors, authors, journalists, CEOs, artists and educational innovators who each share their experiences and accomplishments. Steve also conducts in-depth interviews for NJ Today, which airs weeknights on the new NJTV and covers news, politics and policy from across the state.
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin is a graduate of New York University (BFA-Tisch, 94) and was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from NYU in 2010.
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.
Annie Bergen
Annie Bergen is a part-time host at WQXR. Since her 2004 arrival as WQXR’s morning host, she has interviewed more than 300 arts personalities. From 1994 to 2000, Bergen was the Business News Anchor for Bloomberg Television, producing and hosting segments on culture.
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.
Clayelle Dalferes
Clayelle Dalferes hosts overnights and weekends at WQXR. She began hosting at WQXR weekends in 1993 after working at New York’s ill-fated WNCN.
Elliott Forrest
Elliott Forrest is currently the weekend morning host on WQXR. Since his return to WQXR in 2002, he has hosted and produced live events from Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Hollywood Bowl and The Jerome L. Greene Space, among others.
David Garland
David Garland hosts Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons on WQXR. He is the host and producer of Movies On The Radio, Saturdays at 9 pm, a show that explores the art of music for film, from classics to indies to blockbusters. Garland presents early music on WQXR, Sundays, 4 pm.
Olivia Giovetti
Olivia Giovetti is the former Classical & Opera contributing editor for Time Out New York and a regular contributor to Gramophone and Classical Singer magazines. She has also written for the Washington Post, Ariama.com, Playbill, Paper and other outlets. Olivia ...
Nimet Habachy
Nimet Habachy hosts Overnight Music on WQXR. For seven years she worked at New York City Opera as the Assistant to the Company Manager and was a language coach for French and Italian. A native of Cairo, Habachy has traveled abroad extensively and has contributed to the Travel section of The New York Times.
Conor Hanick
Conor Hanick is a concert pianist, chamber musician, and modern music enthusiast living in New York City. His playing of standard and contemporary repertoire has been widely praised, reminding the New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini of “a young Peter Serkin."
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.
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.
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.
Naomi Lewin
Naomi Lewin is the weekday afternoon host on WQXR, and the host of WQXR’s bi-weekly podcast Conducting Business. Before arriving at WQXR, Lewin was the midday host at WGUC, Cincinnati’s classical public radio station.
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.
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.
Nico Muhly
Born in 1981, Nico Muhly is a composer living and working in New York, NY. He blogs at www.nicomuhly.com.
Kerry Nolan
Kerry Nolan anchors the morning newscasts on WQXR. She came to WNYC in 1993 and has been local host for Weekend All Things Considered and Weekend Edition Saturday and Sunday. She has filled in as guest host on the Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate Shows, for John Schaefer on Soundcheck and for Brooke Gladstone on NPR’s On the Media.
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.
Rafael Pi Roman
A native of Cuba, Rafael Pi Roman received his Bachelor’s Degree in English from Florida State University. After receiving his Master’s Degree in International Affairs, also from Florida State University, Mr. Pi Roman moved to New York City to attend the NYU Graduate Film School.
In 1985 he became the head of NABET 15, the freelance film and television workers local of The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians. (NABET 15 was a “local” whose jurisdiction included the entire country except Los Angeles.) In 1989 Mr. Pi Roman left the union to become the host of “Visiones”, WNBC-TV’s public affairs program directed at the Latino population of New York City and the tri-state area. In the fall of 1992, Mr. Pi Roman wrote and hosted “Nuestra Moda” a national prime time special profiling the great Hispanic fashion designers for the Univision Spanish television network, and later that year, he moved to Thirteen/WNET, where he anchored “The Bulldog Edition”, the station’s nightly news.
Gity Razaz
Recently hailed as "ravishing and engulfing" by The New York Times, Gity Razaz's music ranges from concert solo pieces to large symphonic works. She is a collaborator involved in projects across disciplines from modern dance to electro-acoustic soundscapes.
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.
Nadia Sirota
Nadia Sirota hosts a four-hour daily program on Q2 Music, WQXR’s New Music station. Before Q2, she hosted Overnight Music on WNYC and WQXR. Her program was awarded an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for Radio and Internet Broadcast in 2010, and has been described by Alex Ross of The New Yorker as “radio we can believe in.” Nadia is also a highly sought-after violist known for her compelling energy and unique ability to interpret new scores.
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.
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.
Kent Tritle
Kent Tritle is one of America’s leading choral conductors. He is founder and Music Director of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, the acclaimed concert series currently in its 22nd season at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City; in his sixth season as Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York and fourth season as Music Director of Musica Sacra; Director of Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music; and a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. An acclaimed organ virtuoso, he is also the organist of the New York Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra.
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.
