As a volunteer member of WWUH Radio 91.3 FM, a public alternative radio station operated as a community service by the University of Hartford, I serve as a classical music announcer. I was the producer and host of "What You Will" — the Friday edition of "Evening Classics" — from May 2003 until May 2007. My program was focused on twentieth-century and contemporary chamber music, as well as music for solo instrument and voice.
During the course of these more than 200 broadcasts, virtually all of the major string quartet cycles composed in the twentieth-century were played on WWUH Radio. There is probably no other music program on radio that can make a similar claim in the exploration of this engaging and sometimes challenging music.
My cultural pursuits encompass Shakespeare, musical theater, art-house movies, chamber music, and La Belle Époque. Avocations run the gamut from Tango Argentino to Harley-Davidson Café Racer motorcycles.
clubs
Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut, Harvard Club of Northern Connecticut, President's College at the University of Hartford, World Affairs Council, and MIT Enterprise Forum.
talents
Radio Broadcasting, Classical Music, Chamber Music, Jazz, Production, Announcing, Interviewing, Hosting, Public Speaking, Scriptwriting, Organization.
music
John Adams, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, John Harbison, Steve Reich, Ned Rorem, Joan Tower, Julia Wolfe, Frank Zappa, Osvaldo Golijov, Ástor Piazzolla, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Pierre Boulez, Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke, Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernst von Dohnányi, Leos Janácek, Bohuslav Martinu, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, Alexander Zemlinsky, Richard Strauss, Paul Hindemith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ernest Bloch, Frederick Delius, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stephen Sondheim, Adam Guettel.
artists
Audra McDonald, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Magdalena Kozená, Anna Netrebko, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Plácido Domingo, Juan Diego Flórez, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Hampson, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Arditti Quartet, Emerson String Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Schoenberg Quartet, Ethel, eighth blackbird, Ensemble interContemporain, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
movies
Julie & Julia, Public Enemies, Up, The Reader, Watchmen, Slumdog Millionaire, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, Defiance, Frost/Nixon, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Il y a longtemps que je t'aime, La fille coupée en deux, Quantum of Solace, The Dark Knight, Tropic Thunder, WALL·E, The Magnificent Seven, Ne le dis à personne, Wanted, Kiss Me Stupid, El Violin, Le Mépris, Kung Fu Panda, Roman de Gare, Touch of Evil, Iron Man, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Paris je t'aime, A Fistful of Dollars, Sweeney Todd, Seven Samurai, Michael Clayton, Blade Runner, Big Night, Lucie Aubrac, There Will be Blood, An Inconvenient Truth, Redacted, Atonement, Honeydripper, How to Cook for Your Life, No Country for Old Men, City Lights, Les Brodeuses, Lust Caution, Le Doulos, 3:10 to Yuma, The Earrings of Madame de..., Lady Chatterley, Brand Upon the Brain!, Ratatouille, After the Wedding, Triad Election, La Vie en Rose, The Valet, The Lives of Others, Mafioso, Casino Royale, Notes on a Scandal, The Queen, Andrei Rublev, Blades of Glory, Shortbus, The Illusionist, Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor: The Last Show, The Devil Wears Prada, Baraka, Inside Man, Happy Feet, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Gilda, Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Les Triplettes de Belleville, 2046, In the Mood for Love, Rififi, Amélie.
tv shows
Great Performances, Masterpiece Theater, NOVA, Live from Lincoln Center, Mystery!, America's Ballroom Challenge.
actors
Julianne Moore, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gretchen Mol, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Cate Blanchett, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford, Robert Downey Jr, Daniel Craig, Gérard Depardieu, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai.
