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Robert Sherman

For 23 years he also presided over WQXR's The Listening Room. Since their inception, he has hosted the Avery Fisher Career Grant Award presentations at Lincoln Center, and his multiple award-winning folk series "Woody's Children" is now heard in New York on Public Radio's WFUV. Many of his historic broadcast tapes are in the permanent collections of the Sarasota Music Archive and the Media Collection at the University of Maryland.

On the faculty of the Juilliard School, Robert Sherman has given seminars at Oberlin, Yale, the Eastman School, the University of Arizona, the Mannes College of Music, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Music, where he is also chairman of the Advisory Council.

For over 25 years a music critic and columnist for The New York Times, Sherman has written two books with Victor Borge, is the co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music," and with his brother, Alexander Sherman, compiled a pictorial biography of their mother, the renowned pianist Nadia Reisenberg. He is on the advisory boards of many major cultural organizations, as well as serving them variously as pre-concert lecturer, competition judge, panel moderator and fund-raising emcee.

Increasingly active as a concert narrator, Robert Sherman has performed with such ensembles as Canadian Brass, the United States Military Academy (West Point) Band, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Philharmonia Virtuosi; among his many performances are the world premieres of works written especially for him by Seymour Barab, William Mayer, Issachar Miron, Soong Fu Yuan and John Corigliano.

Shows:

• The McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase