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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.

Created Music from the Hearts of Space in 1973 as a weekly three-hour local radio program on KPFA-FM in Berkeley, CA. National syndication of a one hour version of the program began in 1983 and grew to a network of over 290 NPR affiliate stations. Stephen and original partner Anna Turner then launched Hearts of Space Records in 1984. After over 150 releases, the label was sold to Valley Entertainment in 2001. As a producer Hill has created thousands of radio broadcasts and dozens of record albums and soundtracks, including an Academy Award-winning feature length documentary. In addition to hosting and directing the production of the radio program, Hill directed A&R for the HOS record labels, and has served as in-house Creative Director of packaging graphics, print, the HOS web site and mobile apps. He continues to produce the radio program with Steve Davis, produces new compilations for Valley Entertainment/Hearts of Space, and works on the Hearts of Space Archive—an Internet streaming service for ambient, space-creating and contemplative music from around the world and across the centuries.

William McGlaughlin’s introduction to music came late; he was fourteen before he took his first piano lessons. "Happily, I understood immediately what a wonderful thing I’d stumbled into. I can remember thinking as I walked away from my second piano lesson — "Well, that’s it. I’ll be a musician. Of course, I had no idea what that decision meant exactly."

John Diliberto is a nationally published writer and award-winning radio producer who has been exploring and exposing new music on the radio, in print and on-line since 1974. He currently is the host and executive producer of Echoes , a nightly music soundscape on Public Radio International, and heard on public radio stations across the country.

Juan's is responsible for digital audience engagement and digital strategies for WXXI News. As a life-long Western New Yorker, Juan has had extensive experience in broadcasting, audience engagement, and promotion.