Judy Gruber

Weekend Host, Classical WETA 90.9 FM

Judy Gruber has been a weekend host on WETA 90.9 FM for over ten years. For three years, viewers regularly heard her as the "voice" of WETA TV 26. Prior to her work at WETA, she was an arts reporter, interviewer and host of a highly popular classical music program on WGMS-FM.

In addition to her work at WETA, she is an announcer for Maestro, the classical music radio channel at WorldSpace, a digital satellite broadcasting company that broadcasts classical music around the world.

Gruber reviewed classical music for The Washington Post for five years. She has also worked as a program annotator for the Barns at Wolf Trap, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Alexandria Symphony, Washington Performing Arts Society and the National Symphony Orchestra's Young People's Concerts. Currently, she edits biographical information for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Millennium Stage concerts.

Gruber has given pre-concert lectures for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Alexandria Symphony, the National Cathedral, the Choral Arts Society, and George Mason University. She also hosts some of the “Conversations with the Conductor” and “Meet the Composer” series at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Her articles on music have appeared in Stagebill and Symphony magazine.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she is a graduate of Webster University, where she studied piano, cello and voice, and obtained her Bachelor's degree in theater arts. An avid scuba diver, Gruber also enjoys tennis, horseback riding, swimming, weight training and reading.