Following is an e-mail to WDAV staff sent earlier today announcing our two latest hires! – bkr.
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Friends: I’m very pleased to announce two new additions to the WDAV staff.
If you’ve visited the www.wdav.org website recently, you’ve probably already noticed the audio and video production work of Jeffrey Freymann-Weyr, WDAV’s first-ever (and possibly the first for a classical-music station) Multi-Media Producer. Jeffrey (whose last name is pronounced “Frime ‘n’ Wire”) comes to WDAV after 13 years at National Public Radio, where he served as an producer and editor for such programs as Performance Today, Morning Edition, and the new NPRMusic.org website. Jeff is a film-scoring graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston and attended Haverford College as well as the University of Michigan’s famed School of Music, from which he holds a Bachelor of Music degree.
Quite simply, Jeffrey is one of the most talented and innovative audio producers I have ever known. He was the driving force behind NPR’s Milestones of the Millennium – a two-year series of weekly documentaries that created “a picture in sound” of the pivotal events, places, movements, artists and musical works of the past 1000 years. Jeffrey is married to novelist Garret Freymann-Weyr, (in her own words, “the author of five Young Adult novels, one picture book, and one mercifully out-of-print novel for grown-ups.”) Jeffrey and Garret will be relocating to Davidson from their home in Washington, DC.
I am equally delighted to announce that we can now remove the “Interim” title from WDAV’s new Director of Marketing and Communications Lisa V. Gray. Lisa is a Davidson-based internet marketing consultant who launched her own practice two years ago to help area entrepreneurs and nonprofits integrate online tools with traditional marketing efforts. She has been active in the Charlotte arts community for 16 years, serving in executive positions with such organizations as Charlotte Trolley, Inc. and the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. She has acted as WDAV’s interim director of marketing since August 2008 and is responsible for planning and executing WDAV’s comprehensive marketing and public relations strategy through traditional- and new-media methods, including the complete “makeover” of WDAV’s popular – and now weekly – eNewsletter.
In the course of her interim work Lisa has impressed the entire WDAV staff with her creativity, impeccable writing skills, depth of marketing knowledge and positive outreach to the media and the larger arts community. And, it should be added, one of the sunniest dispositions on the planet and a remarkable sense of grace under the severest pressure her demanding boss can muster!
Given their backgrounds and their new job responsibilities, I feel that both Jeffrey and Lisa’s appointments will further strengthen WDAV’s march into the digital future, and our use of multi-media to engage new listeners. Please join me in welcoming both Lisa and Jeffrey to the Davidson community.
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benjamin k roe | general manager
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beroe@wdav.org | www.wdav.org
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