Tom Huizenga

Tom Huizenga is a music producer for NPR Digital Media. He moved into his current role in 2007, after spending seven years as a producer, writer and editor for NPR's Peabody Award-winning daily classical music magazine Performance Today, and for the programs SymphonyCast and NPR World of Opera. He enjoys contributing stories on classical music for NPR's Morning Edition, and other NPR news programs. He produced the live broadcast of Gershwin's Porgy & Bess from Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center, plus concerts from NPR's Studio 4A, as well as performances on the road at Summerfest La Jolla and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. He's also a contributor for NPR.org's "Song of the Day" feature.

Huizenga's radio career began at the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1986. He regularly hosted several radio shows (opera, jazz, free-form, experimental collage) during his four year tenure at Ann Arbor's WCBN-FM. In the Enthnomusicology department, Huizenga studied and performed traditional court music from Indonesia. He also studied English Literature and voice, while writing for the university's newspaper. He took his love of music and broadcasting to New Mexico, where he served as music director for NPR member station KRWG, in Las Cruces.

Huizenga lives in (the people's republic of) Takoma Park, Maryland, with his wife, a public affairs director at the Smithsonian. In his spare time he writes about music for the Washington Post, overloads on concerts and movies, and swings a tennis racket wildly on many local courts.