Elliott Forrest is a Peabody Award winning broadcaster and producer. He has been heard regularly on WQXR since 2002. He is the national radio host of the syndicated concerts from The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and creates regular podcasts for The New York Philharmonic. His first radio job was in his hometown of Midland, Texas on KNFM. He went on to work at Kansas City’s KXTR-FM; WKJY, Long Island; WEVD, NY and WNCN, NY.
In 2009 Elliott made his Lincoln Center producing debut, creating a series of concerts to celebrate the 200th Birthday of Abraham Lincoln. The concerts featured The Little Orchestra Society, conductor Dino Anagnost, with narrator James Earl Jones, violinist/composer Mark O’Connor, and large-scale images that Elliot created specially for the event. Among other concerts, in 2005 he produced and designed a concert version of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung at The Hollywood Bowl with John Mauceri conducting The Los Angeles Philharmonic.
For more than 12 years Elliott was the host of Breakfast with the Arts on the A&E Television Network. He interviewed scores of artists from film, Broadway, rock, jazz, world and classical music. Additional A&E hosting duties included Biography®. For more than five years Elliott was the “voice” of programs and specials on CNN. He reported and produced entertainment news for Showtime, The Movie Channel, and FLIX and has produced field pieces for E! Entertainment Television and The TV Guide Channel. Elliott hosted several shows on PBS, including the national telecast of The 3 Tenors Concert live from Giants Stadium.
During 1995 Elliott co-hosted the nationally syndicated talk show, The Late Late Radio Show with Tom Snyder and Elliott Forrest, for the CBS Radio Network (1995). The show featured one-on-one celebrity interviews and nightly conversations between Tom and Elliott.
Continuing a long relationship with composer and satirist Peter Schickele, Elliott is featured on the Grammy winning recording P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio.
Elliott was a founding Artistic Director of Riverspace, a performing arts center in Nyack, NY. The theater presented music, films, theater and his “Conversation Series” has featuring interviews with Mike Nichols, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn and Lewis Black. Overlapping his broadcasting work he has been a media trainer, presentation coach and lecturer. He is the recipient of broadcasting’s highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award, the New York Festivals Radio Award, and New York and Texas State Broadcasting Awards. Elliott received a Bachelor of Arts in Theater from the University of Texas in Austin.
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