Peter van de graaff biography

Peter Van De Graaff is recognized nationwide as a leader in classical music broadcasting. After beginning his radio career in 1984 at KBYU, he came to 98.7 WFMT as a staff announcer in 1988.

For the past 19 years he has been the host of the Beethoven Satellite Network, a nationally-syndicated daily program carried on over 200 stations. Since 1996 he has been the program director of the service as well.

Beethoven satellite network

He has also hosted such nationwide broadcast series as Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Van Cliburn Piano Series, Opera from the European Broadcasting Union, Music of the Baroque and the Vermeer Quartet. Hailed by the critics as possessing a "resplendent voice" and "rich, burnished sound" with "formidable skill" and a "commanding grace and strength", bass-baritone Peter Van De Graaff has sung to great acclaim throughout the world.

In Europe, he performed and recorded a Mass by Jan Vorisek with the Czech State Symphony under Paul Freeman and has also sung Beethov