Classical 95.9 WCRI

Classical 95.9 WCRI is the only 24 hour classical music station exclusively serving Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut. WCRI reaches an upscale, educated and active listening audience throughout Southern New England. With its transmitter situated on Block Island, WCRI provides a strong, clean signal to Rhode Island and Southeastern Connecticut. In addition to popular classical movements and pieces, WCRI presents specialty programming such as Mozart Block at Nine O’Clock, All-Time Classics, Conducting Conversations, My Music, & Sunday Brunch. Classical 95.9 WCRI is the sister station of News Radio 1180 WCNX (Hope Valley, R.I.).

Conducting Conversations - Mike Maino has spent over 45 years of his life immersed in the world of singing, speaking and entertaining. He joined the Barbershop Harmony Society at the age of 10, and has sung in many popular championship groups. As an MC, his experiences include hundreds of live stage shows, that have taken him from California to Newfoundland, Seattle to Bermuda, and just about every major performance venue in between. His voice over work at Aviti Productions, in Providence, led to TV commercial work for Comcast, in the Boston area, and now to the Judson Group, at WCRI and WCNX.

My Music - Dr. Mark Malkovich has been the general director, for over thirty years, of the Newport Music Festival and has brought the Festival to international prominence. He is considered an expert in the field of chamber music and is himself a pianist of note, having studied with Dorothy Crost Bourgin of the Chicago Musical College, William Beller, Chairman of the Piano Department of Columbia University, and Adele Marcus of the Juilliard School. Malkovich’s personal record collection of more than 15,000 discs contains many rarities, especially of pianists, gathered from his travels around the world. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Celebrities in International Music, and Leading Personalities of the World. He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Salve Regina University, an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Rhode Island, and he has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He was invited as the sole American adjudicator to the First Tbilisi International Piano Competition in Georgia. He has also been inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, one of only 390 illustrious Rhode Islanders in the history of the State, from Roger Williams to the present.