Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Monday – Thursday, 8:00 pm – 12:00 am
Kerry Frumkin

Settle into your evening with new musical discoveries and expansive works.

Peabody Award winner Kerry Frumkin not only ranks among classical radio’s most distinguished hosts, he has a most desired guest list. Any evening with Kerry promises some great performances from the WFMT music library, but don’t be surprised if the next one is live.

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT.

His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.