Daniel Gilliam
Program Director, WUOLDaniel is a native of Louisville, and has lived in lots of other places, including spending his developmental years in Chile. He’s worked in classical radio since 2007 mostly here at LPM (with a brief stint from 2010-2012 at Minnesota Public Radio) producing award-winning audio, hosting daily music shows, interviewing big names in classical music, and creating interesting live events like New Lens. He’s also the host for the Louisville Orchestra concert talks. Daniel is a composer, writing for orchestras, chamber ensembles, singers, and everything in between. He has served as a panelist for the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, was an associate composer in 2020 at the Atlantic Center for Arts working with Jennifer Higdon, and was a resident at Copland House in 2017. Daniel would like to visit outer space one day.
Email Daniel at dgilliam@lpm.org.
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Daniel Gilliam talks with composer Joel Thompson about "To Awaken the Sleeper," a work for narrator and orchestra with words of James Baldwin. -
Pianist Jonathan Biss talks to WUOL's Daniel Gilliam about his love for Ludwig van Beethoven's music and playing the Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" with the Louisville Orchestra
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Listen to WUOL's Chanukah radio specials from Chicago a cappella and from WQXR's Naomi Lewin
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It's now basically a right of passage, and expectation, for musicians to play NPR's storied "Tiny Desk," a literal corner cubicle at their headquarters in…
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Thanksgiving Day's schedule this year includes Giving Thanks with John Birge, with special guest Ada Limon, a Lexington resident, and the new Poet…
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We're finishing out another incredible season of New Lens with a one-of-a-kind performance from The Fourth Wall, a chamber group that is "...part devised…
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From new recordings of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor to a classic from "Mary Poppins" played by Lang Lang, here's a playlist of some new adds to the WUOL…
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Starting Saturday, August 13th at 9pm, tune in for Feminine Fusion hosted by Diane Jones. This weekly show will highlight the influence of women in…
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Longleash (a piano trio) is an ensemble with a traditional instrumentation and a progressive identity. They'll bring their program "Far from Shore" to New…
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This week on From the Top (Sundays at 7pm) a mambo for harp, one of Debussy’s earliest works, a Spiritual arranged by composer Margaret Bonds, and a…
