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Elliott Forrest

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

Elliott Forrest is an award-winning broadcaster and producer. He is the recipient of broadcasting's highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award, and twice won an Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the New York State Broadcasters Association. He is heard nationally as the radio host for concerts by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Seattle Symphony and the Jerusalem Symphony. Forrest also hosted Bring Back the Music, a benefit concert for Katrina victims broadcast live from Lincoln Center featuring the New York Philharmonic, Audra McDonald, Wynton Marsalis and Randy Newman.

Forrest’s first radio job was at KNFM in his hometown of Midland, Texas. He went on to work at Kansas City's KXTR-FM, where he was also program director; WEVD, New York; and WKJY, Long Island. From 1986 to 1993, Forrest was morning drive-time host on WNCN-FM in New York. He also broadcast special events from the United Nations and Carnegie Hall (co-hosting with Peter Jennings).

In 1995 Forrest co-hosted the nationally syndicated CBS Radio talk show, The Late Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder and Elliott Forrest. The program featured one-on-one celebrity interviews and nightly conversations between Snyder and Forrest. For his segments of the show, Forrest interviewed hundreds of people, including Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, John Cleese, Shirley MacLaine, Peter Arnett, Bill Mahar, Larry King, Garrison Keillor, Garry Shandling, Elvis Costello, and Peter Ustinov, as well as members of the rock groups The Moody Blues, Chicago, and Fleetwood Mac, among others. Forrest considers working with Snyder a high point in his career, giving him the chance to talk about news and everyday life with one of the country's legendary broadcasters.

In television, Forrest co-hosted the PBS Pledge Breaks for Great Moments At The Met, a national television special (2007), and The Jewish Americans (2008). For more than 12 years he was host of Breakfast with the Arts on the A&E Television Network. The show featured segments on movies, Broadway, rock, jazz, world and classical music, studio performances and interviews with guests. Forrest was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2002 and 2005.

As a producer and director, Forrest is Co-Artistic Director of Riverspace Arts in Nyack, New York, producing and presenting concerts, events and program series.