The Voice of the Performing Arts

It was a one-hour program hosted by Steven Libman, a longtime performing arts executive and former CEO of the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana and Jeff Swensson, an arts education advocate and former superintendent of Carmel Clay Schools.

The Voice of the Performing Arts ran from 2013 - 2016, interviewed over 500 guests through 166 shows for a weekly audience of up to 10,000.

The show aired weekly on public radio station WICR 88.7 at the University of Indianapolis and was podcast in iTunes.

The hosts often asked guests to explain the “transformative moment[2]” when he or she fell in love with the performing arts.

The guests on the premiere episode included David Hochoy, artistic director of Dance Kaleidoscope; Kathleen Hacker, chair of UIndy’s Department of Music; Alan Davis, president and CEO of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra; and Soo Han, director of the Carmel High School Orchestra.