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Don G. Amrine
Host, Bluegrass Ramble
Don Amrine has been involved with Bluegrass Ramble since early 1982, and says his love for bluegrass music was mostly influenced by "Flatt & Scruggs" in the 1960s. In the '70s and '80s, Amrine's favorites included the "Country Gentlemen" (Jim and Jesse) and Doyle Lawson. I am still fascinated by the harmony singing and precision picking style of these groups," he says. Since 1990, Amrine has been singing and playing guitar/bass in a traditional bluegrass band. Presently, he works as a contract consulting engineer and owns Fairfield Specialty Co. in Lancaster, OH. When not in the WOSU studio or on the job, Amrine spends time with his wife Susan and children D. Michael and Bridget. His favorite pastimes include woodworking and fishing.
Fred Andrle (WOSU NPR News)
Host, Open Line with Fred Andrle
Fred Andrle is host and executive producer of WOSU NPR News' daily public affairs talk program, Open Line. A Buffalo, New York, native, Fred is a graduate of Canisius College of Buffalo and he holds a master's degree in Communication from Stanford University. Fred began work for the WOSU stations on the TV side, where he produced and hosted a weekly talk show, Speakeasy. He journeyed to China to produce a documentary about Chinese artists and scholars, as well as a performance piece highlighting the Beijing Acrobatic Company which aired nationally on PBS.
Fred has hosted Open Line since 1988. The program features local, national and international guests in a call-in format that allows listeners to directly question journalists, social reformers, government officials, artists, and more.
Rich Baker
Host, Bluegrass Ramble
Rich Baker has been a co-host of Bluegrass Ramble since October 1986. Born in Akron, OH, he received his bachelors degree in journalism from Ohio University. His radio experience includes a brief stay as a country DJ at WOUB in Athens (while in college), and a radio show on WFVF-FM in Columbus called the Bluegrass Hot Top Hits Countdown. "I like finding new bluegrass groups and vocalists with a sound firmly rooted in traditional bluegrass," he says. "Bands that bring a fresh approach and a modem sound but don't stray too far from traditional bluegrass." When he's not listening to bluegrass, Baker is the director of corporate communications for Metatec Corporation in Dublin.
Tom Borgerding (WOSU NPR News)
WOSU NPR News Managing Editor, Reporter
Tom Borgerding has worked in both commercial and public radio newsrooms. He joined WOSU in August of 1985 and currently serves as managing editor and reporter. He has reported stories for regional and national networks. A native of St. Louis, he has strong Midwest tendencies. He lives in northeast Franklin County with his wife, Vicki.
Tim Eby
Radio Manager
Tim Eby has been the Radio Manager for WOSU since June 2004. Prior to his move to Columbus, Eby was Station Manager at WVPE Public Radio in South Bend, Indiana for more than 21 years. He has also served as the President of Public Radio In Mid-America (PRIMA), the country's largest public radio regional organization, for four years and has served on numerous task forces and panels sponsored by NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Eby has been a member of the Board of Directors of National Public Radio since November 2002 and currently serves as its Chairman. Throughout his career, Eby has worked on behalf of numerous arts, cultural, and non-profit groups in his local community, including a four-year stint as the volunteer chairman of the Elkhart Jazz Festival. He currently sits as a member of the board of directors for the Jazz Arts Group and the Thurber House in Columbus. Tim notes, however, that his greatest achievements are convincing his wife Kathi to marry him in 1988, and - with Kathi - raising three beautiful daughters: Kelci (born in 1992), McKenzie (born in 1995), and Lindsey (born in 1999). Tim and his family reside in Powell.
Beverley Ervine (WOSU Classical Music)
Music Director
Music Director Beverley Ervine was born in Staunton, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley and came to WOSU in 1986. Ervine earned her Bachelors degree in Music Education from East Carolina University, her Masters in Music History and Literature at The Ohio State University, and her ABD for Ph.D. in Music History and Literature at OSU. In 1976 she was awarded a bassoon scholarship to study with Leonard Sharrow, who played under Arturo Toscanini. She left a teaching career (including elementary and high/school band/classroom music, private students and undergraduate music courses at OSU) before joining the WOSU Radio family.
In February of 1997, Beverley was elected President of the Association of Music Personnel in Public Radio (AMPPR), a national organization representing public radio stations that feature music as a regular part of their program schedule. During her tenure as President, a position she held for 5 of her 8 years on AMPPR's Board of Directors, she successfully initiated many new programs such as announcer training workshops and scholarships for first-time attendees to AMPPR's annual conference. Likewise, she increased visibility for the organization by launching AMPPR's web site and building relationships with other national and international radio organizations, to include a future international classical music symposium with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) which had to be delayed due to the post-world events of September 11, 2001.
During her "free time," Beverley serves as a member on the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra Artistic Committee where she reports on current classical music trends, repertoire, and rising young artists and composers, and she enjoys spending as much home and travel time as possible with her husband Boyce Lancaster, whom she met and married at the WOSU Stations.
Chet DeLong
Host, Bluegrass Ramble
Born in mountain country Kentucky, Chet DeLong has lived in central Ohio for 43 years and been part of WOSU's Bluegrass Ramble since 1990. He grew up listening to Farm and Fun Time on WCYB in Bristol, VA, featuring the Stanley Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, and Bill Monroe. "I can't recall a time of not being in love with bluegrass music," he says. DeLong has promoted bluegrass shows since the 70s and has attended festivals in many parts of the country. A charter member of the Central Ohio Bluegrass Association, DeLong has performed in the "Plum Mountain Grass" band for many years. DeLong says he loves to play listener requests.
Sam Hendren (WOSU NPR News)
News Reporter
Reporter Sam Hendren brought more than two decades of experience to WOSU when he arrived in August of 2005. Born in Tennessee and raised in North Carolina, Hendren began his journalism career at the University of Alabama’s public radio station (also his alma mater). He’s reported extensively from across the Southern U.S., the inter-mountain West and the Great Plains states. His work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, and the Voice of America. He served as executive producer of the environmental radio magazine High Plains News, based in Billings, MT, and was news director at public station KMUW, in Wichita, KS. Sam is the recipient of many national awards for journalistic excellence.
Boyce Lancaster (WOSU Classical Music)
Host, Boyce Lancaster and the Classics, Saturday on the Stage with Boyce Lancaster, Saturday at the Pops with Boyce Lancaster
Boyce was born in Lubbock, TX and grew up in Tulsa, OK. With relatives in Houston and San Antonio, however, there are many opportunities for regular trips back into the Lone Star State. His daughter lives there today, having recently moved to Texas, offering yet another reason to head back to longhorn country. He’s lived in Ohio, with a few side trips during college and early in his radio career, for over 20 years. Like his home state, Boyce is a colorful individual, and his speech is peppered with humor. He says that he was “born at a very early age to two wonderful people who should have known better. I began music lessons in third grade, changing from piano to clarinet in the fourth grade. Over the course of the next eight years, I wound up playing oboe, alto and bass clarinet, alto and baritone sax, and made a short disastrous attempt at the sousaphone.
“My college major was broadcasting (surprise, huh?). After stints at several radio stations early in my career, (as they say, town to town, up and down the dial), I came to WOSU in 1984, moving into the morning position in the spring of 1986. Many things have changed over the years, but the listener's love of good music and my enjoyment of getting it on the air remains the same.”
Christina Morgan (WOSU NPR News)
Host, WOSU NPR News All Things Considered
Christina is the local host and news anchor during WOSU NPR News' afternoon news magazine All Things Considered. Christina has been a part of the WOSU news team for more than two decades. She earned a BA in Journalism & English from Indiana University and an MA in Education from The Ohio State University.
Christopher Purdy (WOSU Classical Music)
Host, Arts Unscripted, Music in MidOhio, Ohio Arts Alive with Christopher Purdy, Serenata with Christopher Purdy
Christopher was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution (“Paul Revere rode by my house; I wasn’t home, but my mother was!”). He studied music at Boston University and a Master in Arts Administration from New York University. Christopher is hoping to turn his graduate credits into a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Opera Production at The Ohio State University. He is a pre-concert speaker for all classical-series concerts for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (“if you don’t like me, don’t come early, because you can’t avoid me!”), the Vail Series at Denison University and Opera Columbus. In September, he will be doing a “Classical Music Workshop for Children” at Denison. Christopher designed and taught a class entitled “Listening to Voices” at OSU. (“I had a marvelous time, and two or three of those students have become like my children! Fortunately, I don’t have to pay their tuition!”) Purdy was a regular panelist for 20 years on the Chevron-Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz.
Purdy has Columbus ties: his father-in-law, Wayne Rittenhouse, was the football coach of Central and Northland High Schools in Columbus. He met his wife, Linda, while they were both working at a food kitchen in New York City. They married in 1989; their daughter was born in 1990, and the family moved to Columbus in 1991. They are still adjusting to the Midwestern lifestyle. A city boy, Purdy maintains that he would be happy to cement over his entire yard…“spare me the lawn mower and the weeds!” His favorite composers are Monteverdi and Bruchner. An accidental encounter with a beat-up recording of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the age of eight changed Purdy's direction from law school or the priesthood to one of classical music and public broadcasting. He was so captivated by the cover art, that he took the recording home, popped it on his battery-operated kiddy record player … and his life changed forever. He still has the recording.
John Rittmeyer (WOSU Classical Music)
Host, John Rittmeyer with the Classics; Symphony at 7
John grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Columbus to attend OSU where he double majored in English and Photography. He went on to acquire a Masters degree; John’s thesis centered upon the Canadian writer, Robertson Davies. Rittmeyer was drawn to Davies because of his psychological and spiritual themes—interests that have carried through in his music career.
Learning to play the guitar in high school, John grew to love all kinds of music, rock ‘n roll first, and then classical music later. As a student, Rittmeyer would often turn on music while he was studying, and he found himself gravitating towards the music of particular eras he was studying. When he began to examine the nineteenth-century Romantic poets, for example, he would play Wagner and other musicians of the Romantic age. “Music has enhanced my experience of literature. The more you listen and the more you read, you begin to recognize the zeitgeist of the era—in different forms and media—and that’s fascinating. I've been getting paid to listen to classical music since 1987, and the experience of music has opened a whole new world of artistic expression to me.”
Marilyn Smith (WOSU NPR News)
Host, WOSU NPR News Morning Edition
Marilyn Smith is the local host of WOSU NPR News' Morning Edition (5am-9am weekdays). She began her career in Broadcast Journalism at WOSU as a graduate intern. Through the years, she has worked as a reporter and producer. She was one of the early hosts of a local hour of Morning Edition. She’s also hosted call-in programs during her years of service at WOSU. Marilyn and her husband have two children.
Mandie Trimble (WOSU NPR news)
News Reporter
Mandie began working at WOSU in August, 2005. A 2004 graduate of the University of Alabama, Mandie also worked as a general assignment reporter for The Daily Mountain Eagle in Jasper, AL, as well as Alabama Public Radio.
Mandie came to really appreciate public radio as an undergraduate student studying television reporting. She began working as a student reporter and anchor for Alabama Public Radio just to gain some experience. But during her two years at APR, she decided public radio’s non-sensationalized style of reporting was the career choice for her. Mandie has won several national and state awards for her reporting.
Mike Thompson (WOSU NPR News)
Director, News and Public Affairs
Host, Columbus on the Record
Mike has worked for WOSU since 2001, gaining the position of news director in 2005.
A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, Mike earned a B.S. in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and a Masters in Business Administration from Ohio State University.
Mike has worked in radio and television in Massachusetts and Ohio earning numerous awards for enterprise and investigative reporting. Mike and his wife Mary have twins – Madeleine and William.
Amy Juravich (WOSU NPR News)
Midday Host
Amy joined WOSU in September 2007. She was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA and graduated from Duquesne University in 2005 with a B.A. in journalism and a B.A. in English. It was during college that Amy came to appreciate the values of public radio when she worked as a student news reporter for WDUQ-FM (a Pittsburgh NPR news station). After college Amy moved to Tallahassee, Florida to work as a reporter for WFSU-FM and Florida Public Radio covering capital news for the state. Amy left Florida to marry her high school sweetheart Jonathan Juravich in December 2006. After arriving in Columbus, Amy worked briefly as an Associate Producer at NBC 4 before joining WOSU. Amy has won several journalism awards for her public radio reporting (back then her name was ‘Amy DiFiore’). In her free time, Amy enjoys spending time with Jon, eating out, going to the gym and traveling (she studied in Rome during college).
Alan Chapman
Classical Music Host
Heard weekday and Saturday mornings, Alan has a multifaceted musical background. A familiar morning host on KUSC, Los Angeles, he was a longtime member of the music faculty at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and has also been a visiting professor at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. He has been a regular speaker on the L.A. Philharmonic's "Upbeat Live" series since its inception in 1984, and a frequent preconcert lecturer for many other performing organizations in southern California. He served for six seasons as producer, writer and host of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra's national broadcast series. Alan is also an award-winning composer/lyricist, frequently appearing in a cabaret evening of his songs with his wife, singer Karen Benjamin. They made their Carnegie Hall debut with Michael Feinstein in December, 2000. As a composer, his works include a children's opera "Les Moose: The Operatic Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera for 1997, and the musical, “Lady Lou.” He is heard around the globe on United Airlines’ in-flight music channel, “Classical Collection” which reaches an audience of 11 million in-flight passengers.
Kimberlea Daggy
Classical Music Host
Kimberlea previously worked as the Music Director for WFDD Public Radio in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She also hosted a daily music program, and created, hosted and produced their weekly live performance/interview program, Live from Studio A. Kimberlea received a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Northwestern University, with graduate studies at Yale University and Arizona State University. When she’s not sharing her love of music on the air or in a pre-concert lecture, she experiences it first-hand, Kimberlea enjoys singing, from choral to operatic, and playing the piano, from solo Bach or Ravel to four-hand music she shares with her husband. Kimberlea hosts The Classical Top 200, heard weekdays at 1:00 pm, and is heard weekday afternoons on Classical 88.7.
Charles Andrews
Classical Music Host
Charles started in radio in the 1970s at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; a few years later he was part of the group that finally put Hawaii Public Radio on the air. He worked at a community station in Homer, Alaska for three years and at WKSU in Kent, Ohio for 11 years. During his 20 years in noncommercial radio, Mr. Andrews has been a DJ, producer, Music Director, and Program Director - he likes having direct contact with listeners most of all and he feels very lucky to be sharing the music on late weekday afternoons. As a performer, Charles has played the flute in recitals and orchestras since his teenage years, and now enjoys arranging and coaching a middle school flute choir as well.
Monika Vischer
Classical Music Host
Monika began her announcing career in 1986 at KUNC at the University or Northern Colorado, where she hosted music and NPR news magazines. A flutist and singer, Monika has presented workshops in the U.S. and Canada with UNC's Axidentals and the Grammy-nominated group, Vocal Jazz I. Monika graduated from the University of Northern Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communications. She takes great joy in sharing her love of classical music on the radio overnight on weekday and Saturday early mornings. Monika is the host of the Sunday morning show, Sacred Classics.
Steve Blatt
Classical Music Host
Steve was listening to classical music even before he was born. His father was a composer and pianist, as well as assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, so music was everywhere in their New York home. Growing up in Ann Arbor, he played violin and guitar. Following graduation from the University of Michigan, he began his career in classical radio with KVOD in Denver. During 12 years there, Steve was a music host, writer, producer and sales manager. As a part-time announcer, he is able to continue his pursuits in advertising, public relations, and marketing, while sharing his love of classical music middays and afternoons on Saturday and Sunday.
Pat Alexander
Classical Music Host
Pat Alexander, heard on Saturday and Sunday evenings and also on early Sunday and Monday mornings, has a broad musical credits including pianist, teacher and radio announcer. Classical music listeners in Denver knew her as a regular host on KVOD from 1988 to 2000. Her most devoted followers, however, are her many piano students. Having taught privately for over 15 years, Pat believes teaching is both a way to instill a love of classical music and a way to keep from taking herself too seriously. As President of the Denver Bach Society, Pat is committed to bringing the master's music to as many people as possible, through live performance and outreach programs. Lately, she has been excited to renew her studies on the cello.
David Rutherford
Classical Music Host
David is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, with degrees in Double Bass Performance and Music Education. At UNC, while playing in six orchestras and announcing on KUNC, he managed to become the first -- and to this day, the only -- double bassist to win the music department's annual solo competition. David has taught public school orchestra programs in Nevada, Wyoming and Idaho. During his tenure in Wyoming, David's orchestra program was featured on the NBC Nightly News, and he was selected as a National Teacher Fellow in conducting with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. In 1997, David founded the Snake River Chamber Orchestra and served as its musical director for its first four years. Most recently, David was Director of Orchestral Studies and Music Education at Colorado Christian University. He is currently Associate Conductor of the Musica Sacra Chamber Orchestra, as well as Assistant Principal Bass in the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to music, David enjoys spending time in the mountains with his family.
Gene Parrish
Classical Music Host
A substitute announcer heard mainly early Sunday and Monday morning, Gene Parrish began his radio career in 1973 at KQED-FM in San Francisco, where he co-produced and hosted five seasons of NPRÂ’s national broadcasts of the San Francisco Opera. Between 1979 and 1988, Gene traveled the world creating great radio broadcasts; six annual visits to Finland for the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, to Holland for an award-winning series on Netherlands/US relations, to Sweden for a chamber music series and documentary on Swedish Midsummer celebrations, and to China as resident producer for the San Francisco OperaÂ’s project with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. From 1984 to 1996, Gene was a host and producer on KUSC-FM in Los Angeles, and since then has been the voice of Worldwide Jazz, having produced more than 800 programs. Recent projects also include his documentary commemorating the centenary of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and his tribute to Duke Ellington. For many lovers of vocal music across the country, Gene is known for producing over 400 programs of The First Art, his popular weekly series that was dedicated to the choral art form.
Stephanie Wendt
Classical Music Host
Stephanie Wendt is an accomplished performer, writer and radio producer and announcer. Born in New Zealand, Stephanie began her piano studies at the age of five. She went on to earn degrees in piano performance from The Curtis institute of Music and Indiana University, and a doctorate from the University of Minnesota, studying with illustrious teachers including Jorge Bolet, Gary Graffman and Enrica Caballo-Gulli. Winner of numerous competitions, she has performed as chamber musician and soloist on five continents, in venues ranging from Avery Fisher Hall in New York to a maximum-security prison. Stephanie has held teaching positions at the University of Indianapolis, Bethel College in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota. On the radio, she has worked as a producer and host for Minnesota Public Radio and WCAL.
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