Rachel Katz
WWFM Production Manager and Host of A TempoRachel Katz is the host of A Tempo which airs Saturdays at 7 pm.
From an early age, Rachel Katz earned a reputation in her family for both sharing stories (a “town-crier” of sorts) and also sitting back while older family members shared theirs, taking it all in as a quiet observer. Rachel pursued degrees in history at The University of Connecticut and Russian/Soviet studies and journalism at the University of Michigan, which soon set her on the path as a foreign correspondent in the early and mid-1990s. She worked in St. Petersburg, Russia, for three years, writing for UPI, The St. Petersburg Press, AP and The Moscow Times, as well as a variety of other US national and regional publications. Back in the US, she worked at The Connecticut Post and as business editor of The (Norwalk) Hour before moving to Bloomberg News, where she covered retail and other business news.
Interested in exploring radio, she took broadcast classes and landed a job at The Classical Network as a production assistant and the opportunity to produce her own public affairs program, Views and Voices. As host and producer now of A Tempo, she brings her storytelling and reporter experience – and her love of music - to the world of arts and culture, exploring the challenges and opportunities facing the music world today.
In addition to playing violin with the Westminster Community Orchestra, Rachel enjoys fencing, birdwatching and salsa/swing/ballroom dancing.
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A Tempo chats with Ian Koebner, who was recently named Inaugural Chair and Endowed Professor of Arts in Health at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, about the connections between the arts and wellness. -
A Tempo (11/8) covers a recent conference on the connection between the arts and wellness.
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A Tempo (11/1) visits a new exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts that traces the personalities, productions and progress of Black theater, and how that helped shape American musical theater. -
A Tempo (10/25) gets a preview of the upcoming exhibit 'The Magical Flute: Beauty, Enchantment and Power' at the Musical Instrument Museum. -
A Tempo Saturday (10/18 at 7 pm) looks at Eastman School of Music's plans to expand its media and film composition institute. -
A Tempo (10/11) offers a peek into the Metropolitan Opera's exhibit featuring costumes and sketches spanning nearly 150 years. -
A Tempo Saturday (10/4) checks in with Stamford, Conn.-based Orchestra Lumos about programming works for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. -
A Tempo kicked off its survey of how the performing arts are preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, beginning with a two-part look at Sing Democracy 250. The project will present concerts by its Together in Hope choir at key U.S. cities and has invited choirs around the country to perform the music it commissioned at concerts of their own.
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Opera Philadelphia held the first performance in its "Pipe Up" series that showcases the organ, launching a new chapter in the instrument's history after the Wanamaker building was sold this past Spring. -
A Tempo Saturday (9/6) features an upcoming concert organized by violinist Princeton University faculty member Anna Lim that will bring the Music for Food program to the region.
