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Since 1994 Frank Dominguez has been a familiar voice to classical music listeners on WDAV. Over the years he has played a crucial part in station programming decisions through his various roles as Announcer Coordinator, Assistant Program Director, and currently Program Director. His tenure at the station has seen its transition to a fully professional on air staff, several overhauls of its program schedule, and unprecedented growth in the station’s local programming, from the production of original local series such as Carolina Live and Reel Music to the addition of the overnight Early Shift seven days a week. He has also directed or hosted a number of live concert broadcasts by the Charlotte Symphony, Opera Carolina, Charlotte Chamber Music, the Spoleto Festival USA and the Brevard Music Center.

Your host Edmund Stone is a classically trained Shakespearean actor from England whose background includes a variety of stage and screen roles. With deep connections to Hollywood and the classical music community, Edmund is the ideal host for this weekly foray into the world of film and music.

Throughout her radio career, Lisa Simeone has hosted hundreds of live and taped broadcasts, encompassing classical music, jazz, folk, opera, news, interviews, and call-in shows. She also has extensive TV experience, as a host, interviewer, and guest on news and cultural affairs programs. From 1998 to 2000, she was a regular host of NPR's Performance Today and 'Weekend Edition Sunday. She then became full-time host of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered, a job she held from 2000 to 2002. She left in March 2002 to return to freelancing. Shortly after, she began hosting NPR World of Opera. She also returned to hosting and writing for the independent (non-NPR) radio documentary series Soundprint, which she had done earlier in her career before she was hired at Weekend All Things Considered.

Uruguayan-born composer, musician, performer, and professor Elbio Barilari hosts this new ten-concert series devoted to Latino concert music.

Randy Gorbman is WXXI's Director of News and Public Affairs. Randy manages the day-to-day operations of WXXI News on radio, television, and online.

Host of APM's SymphonyCast

Diane Jones is the host of Feminine Fusion, produced at WCNY-FM and aired on WXXI-FM Classical 91.5 every Saturday evening at 8pm. An active composer, Diane has received commissions from nationally and internationally-recognized musicians and ensembles, as well as completing 5 residencies in Syracuse area schools, introducing young musicians to composition. Diane performs regularly with Samba Laranja and the Central New York Flute Choir, and her music has been featured on two SAMMY-award winning CDs. Follow Diane on Twitter (@ComposerJones) and Facebook (here or here) for more about her programming and her music.

Alec Baldwin (Artistic Advisor of THE ART OF THE SCORE) is the Radio Host of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1980 Mr. Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films, and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992), an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004), and has won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. His films include The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, It’s Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, among many others. Alec Baldwin earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994, and received an honorary doctorate in 2010. He is co-chairman of the Board of the Hamptons International Film Festival. Mr. Baldwin has two daughters, Ireland Elliese Baldwin and Carmen Gabriela Baldwin, and a son, Rafael Thomas Baldwin. He is married to Hilaria Thomas Baldwin. In 2016 Mr. Baldwin is hosting a summer package of episodes of Match Game, the classic television game show, the proceeds of which Mr. Baldwin and his wife will donate to charity.

Tony Morris, Executive Director of Classical Guitar Alive: producer of the American Classic TV program for PBS stations nationwide, is known to public broadcasting audiences nation-wide as the host of the successful, widely-broadcast (250+ radio stations), long-running (since 1997) NPR-distributed radio program "Classical Guitar Alive!" He also directs Classical Guitar Alive's Music In Medicine community outreach program, which presents classical music performances at no cost to audiences in hospitals and hospices.