Naomi Lewin

Airs weekdays at 3pm on 105.9 FM

Naomi Lewin (Michael Keating)

Afternoon host Naomi Lewin comes to WQXR from WGUC, Cincinnati’s Classical Public Radio station.  She writes and hosts the award-winning weekly feature Classics for Kids, a demystification of classical music for kids of all ages, which airs on radio stations from Vermont to Utah (and in the Philippines!). 

Lewin has also produced nationally broadcast feature stories on subjects ranging from the Underground Railroad, to a “roots” trip to Silesia, to Cincinnati’s Big Pig Gig (a story that included her prize-winning hog call).  In the aftermath of a raccoon invasion of her house, she became a regular essayist on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday.  Her Veterans Day story “Remembering the War to End All Wars,” about World War I cemeteries in France aired on All Things Considered, and won 2008 awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Public Radio News Directors Incorporated.  In September 2009, Lewin wrote and produced The Spectacular Legacy of Erich Kunzel, a two-hour tribute to the late Cincinnati Pops conductor, which was broadcast on WGUC and around the country.

In a previous lifetime – including a stint in New York – Lewin was a singer and actress, and she continues to appear onstage.  As a narrator, she has performed Peter and the Wolf, King David, William Walton's Façade, and Four Seasons of Italian Futurist Cuisine, by Aaron Jay Kernis.  Lewin also gives song recitals, and has served as mezzo-soprano soloist for Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and the Vivaldi Gloria.  She is a member of the trio Alegría, with flutist (and Sunday Baroque host) Suzanne Bona, and guitarist Richard Goering.  A frequent guest speaker for Cincinnati Opera, she has presented pre-performance talks, as well as an opera introduction for children.

In 1997, when Internet radio was in its infancy, Lewin hosted a seven-hour live Internet broadcast of Webbed Feats presents BYTES of Bryant Park – a site-specific dance/theater/poetry performance event.

Lewin is a native of Princeton, New Jersey, but holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale.