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Bios	v Brian Newhouse, Host v Brad Althoff, Producer

Brian Newhouse, Host
Peabody Award-winner Brian Newhouse was the producer and host for the Minnesota Orchestra broadcasts from 1986-91. In 1992 he moved to Germany and served as a journalist with Radio Deutsche Welle in Cologne, covering topics from the Balkan War to European summer music festivals. He returned to the States and Minnesota Public Radio, and is happily back in the host's chair for the Minnesota Orchestra broadcasts. He holds degrees in voice and English literature, has been a soloist with the Dale Warland Singers and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and an Artist-in-Residence at the Oregon Bach Festival. He won a Peabody Award, broadcasting's equivalent to the Pulitzer, in 2000 for writing the seven-part music documentary The Mississippi: River of Song. Simon and Schuster published his memoir, A Crossing, in 1998.

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Brad Althoff, Producer
Brad Althoff has worked for American Public Media since 2000, beginning as an Associate Producer for Pipedreams. At the same time, he has been a contributor for many projects at American Public Media, including the nationally distributed "We Gather Together" with Garrison Keillor, "Christmas with Cantus" (2005), as well as live and recorded concert event collaborations with Minnesota Public Radio.

Despite the preponderance of classical music in his life, Brad listens to a great deal of world music and is, in fact, an avid follower of Cesaria Evora. A slave to fashion, the gym and his art (he's an organist, too), what free time he has is divided equally between practicing, lifting and the tailor.

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