• One of our nation’s leading strategists for music and public media
• Grammy- and Peabody-award winner
• 20 years at National Public Radio
• Moscow reporter for NPR
• National Medal of the Arts as producer for Performance Today

Benjamin K. Roe is General Manager of WDAV 89.9 Classical Public Radio, the listener-supported public radio service of Davidson College. Roe has more than 25 years of leadership in radio and public media. He is a 20-year veteran of National Public Radio, serving most recently as its Director of Music and Music Initiatives. In that job he developed the blueprint for NPRMusic.org, an online music portal for NPR and member public radio stations across the United States.

Prior to that, he served as NPR’s Senior Producer for Music and Special Projects, as a producer for NPR’s Performance Today, and as a reporter for NPR News in Moscow. In his 20 years at NPR, he created and produced a number of live broadcasts, studio recordings, special programs, and ongoing series for the network, including Creators at Carnegie, SymphonyCast, A King Celebration and Toast of the Nation.

Roe has received numerous honors for his work, including a Chairman’s Medal for Distinguished Service from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Grammy Award for Best Choral Recording, as well as Peabody, Gabriel, and ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards for his work as the senior producer of Performance Today. In 2000, he was a key member of the NPR Cultural Programming staff that was the first broadcast organization ever to receive a National Medal of the Arts.