Sep 11, 2017 · Robbie Ellis joined the WFMT team as a part-time presenter in 2015, and went full-time in 2020 as the producer and host of Introductions and Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis. He’s fronted a variety of broadcasts and events for WFMT, including hosting Folkstage and Classical Cabaret from the piano.

My current station I work for Classical WFMT Chicago as a presenter and producer. Here are our presenter profiles. You can hear me on air in these programmes: Introductions, profiling young Chicago-area musicians.

Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis has an ever-changing selection of familiar classics and surprising new discoveries from orchestras, chamber groups, choirs and more. Join him from 12 midday to 5pm every Sunday.

Mar 22, 2025 · Robbie Ellis joined the WFMT team as a part-time presenter in 2015, and went full-time in 2020 as the producer and presenter of Introductions. You can also hear him on air on Sunday afternoons. He's fronted a variety of broadcasts and events for WFMT, including hosting Classical Cabaret from the piano.

Mar 2, 2024 · As a composer, Robbie writes works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choirs and classical soloists, in addition to the comedy songs he writes for his own performances. If you’re a WFMT-FM radio listener, you’re familiar with Robbie Ellis as a classical music program host.

Freelancing as a comedy songmaker, music director, composer, broadcaster, and various other roles in and around the worlds of comedy, improv, sketch, musical theatre, theatre, new music, classical music, opera, music recording, music education, and radio.

Not that big, but two things. Three things. Four things. One: I updated the look of this website. The main imperative was to minimise the fact that I’m bad at updating a blog. A secondary outcome was to split my professional life into different categories: my work is now sorted by Comedy Songmaker, Music Director, Composer and Broadcaster. (They’re …

Sep 10, 2019 · I’ll leave you with one such comedy song which is kinda new – WFMT has video’d a bunch of them at Classical Cabaret – you can see them here. Book Club (below) is a 2017 song and it’ll definitely be on the album.

LaRob K. Rafael and Robbie Ellis are sampling this album all morning - tune into 98.7FM, wfmt.com or the WFMT app, and give at https://www.wfmt. com/donate.