Helix Collective collaborates with Classical California's Brian Lauritzen and KCRW's Steve Chiotakis for PUBLIC BROADCAST STEREO

Helix Collective performs the most iconic music written for public broadcasting. 

The show features music written for Drama (Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife), Mystery (Sherlock, Dickensian), News (Fresh Air, Morning Edition, Marketplace), Kid’s Shows (Reading Rainbow, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Magic School Bus), Comedy (Monty Python’s Flying Circus), Documentaries (American Experience, NOVA, Independent Lens, Lost L.A.) and more! 

Classical California’s Brian Lauritzen hosts on October 10th and 11th and KCRW’s Steve Chiotakis hosts on October 25th for this tour of music that inspires the best in all of us! 

ABOUT BRIAN LAURITZEN

Brian Lauritzen is a classical music enthusiast who believes that this repertoire is deeply serious, riotously humorous, and everything in between. He exhibits a healthy respect for this great art, and the great artists who create it, and balances that regard with a tasteful irreverence in his presentations on Classical California. Ultimately, Brian believes there are few absolutes when it comes to music--only personal taste. If you don’t like something, you’re not wrong. 

As a multi-award-winning host on Classical California, Brian has had conversations with dozens of top classical musicians and artists. Among them, Gustavo Dudamel, John Williams, Dawn Upshaw, Frank Gehry, Hilary Hahn, Pierre Boulez, Wynton Marsalis, Sir Simon Rattle, and many others. 

More than three million people tune in each season for the internationally-syndicated concert broadcasts of the Los Angeles Philharmonic that Brian produces and hosts. He has traveled to Europe, Asia, and South America with the LA Phil. His choral music program, A Joyful Noise, is consistently one of the most popular programs on Classical California.

Brian is one of Southern California’s most sought-after speakers about classical music. His presentations for the LA Phil, LA Opera, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, the Pasadena Symphony, and CalTech have earned him praise from audiences and critics alike. His invitation to you today is: let’s go on this musical journey together and see what we can discover!

ABOUT STEVE CHIOTAKIS

Steve Chiotakis hosts afternoon news on KCRW in Southern California. He’s been with the station since 2012, previously hosting a daily news show called ‘Greater LA.’

A native of Gary, Indiana, Steve also grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where he went to and graduated college (BA, Communications Studies and Journalism; University of Alabama at Birmingham) and began his radio career even before that. He’s worked on-air and in commercial and public radio newsrooms for more than 35 years.

Steve moved to LA to host Marketplace Morning Report in 2008, reporting on the world of business, as the global financial crisis escalated. He left 4 years later to finally get a full night’s sleep. 

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