KCME Classical On-Air Hosts

Robert Bruce | KCME Station Manager and On-Air Host

Robert Bruce was born and raised in New Jersey – but please don’t hold that against him! He received a music degree from CU, Boulder and later obtained a Masters in Library Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, all the while appearing in various productions of plays, musicals, and Gilbert and Sullivan operas. A life-long passionate enthusiast of classical music and opera, Robert is also a lover of classic movies (as well as the not-so-classic) and a reader of fantasy and horror literature.

In 2010, Robert left New York City, where he had been working at the Juilliard School library for some years, to come to Colorado Springs to pursue a career in Classical Radio. He now wears many hats at KCME: Program Director, librarian, and on-air host, Robert produces Composers a la Carte, Robert’s Hour of Opera, and hosts the Saturday Evening Concert.

He discovered Classical Music when very young, falling in love with The Nutcracker Suite and Danse macabre at age 10. An actor/singer from way back, Robert has performed in various productions of plays, operas, musicals, and Gilbert and Sullivan, most recently appearing as Ko-Ko in Opera Theatre of the Rockies’ production of The Mikado.

When not at KCME, Robert spends most of his time at home with his two cats, Dante and Virgil, cooking, watching classic movies, and listening to music from his personal library of some 1200 compact discs.

Programs:

The Metropolitan Opera Live

Saturdays | 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Composers a la Carte

Wednesdays | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Performance Spotlight / Classical Music

Weekdays | 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

The Saturday Evening Concert

Saturdays | 8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Evening at the Pops

Sundays | 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Classical Music with Robert Bruce

Wednesdays | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Jomar Cruz | KCME On-Air Host & Traffic Coordinator

Jomar Cruz was born in Puerto Rico but spent most of his life in Orlando where he received a Master of Performing Arts from the University of Central Florida, studying cello. He moved from Florida to Colorado Springs hoping to find new and different musical opportunities.

While pursuing his music degree, Jomar enjoyed writing program notes about the music he or his professors would perform because he enjoyed learning about the composer’s history and discussing it. Now as a KCME Host, Jomar is overjoyed to be able to talk about music and reach a wider audience on a weekly basis.

Programs:

Classical Music with Jomar Cruz

Tuesdays | 4:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Thursdays | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Fridays | 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Saturdays 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sundays | 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Musical Cruise

Thursdays | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Dave Carty | KCME On-Air Host

Dave Carty was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His family moved to Colorado Springs when he was a child and he’s lived here ever since. He received a BA in Communications from UCCS and was an intern at KCME his senior year, way back on Minnehaha Ave in Manitou Springs. After starting on-air hosting the midnight shift, Dave moved to the morning show in 1995 and hosted until 2006, then rejoined as your friendly host in the mornings in 2020.

A lifelong music and record nut, in addition to classical music he has a deep devotion to music for film and television as well as radio drama. Dave’s resume is rather varied and includes working at a record store, a shop that built pipe organs, as an actor, and in the AV manufacturing field . His many hobbies include a love for classic movies, collecting and building movie prop replicas, reading and collecting books, and adding to his embarrassingly large CD collection.

Programs

Dinner and a Movie

Thursdays | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Dancing Through the Ages

Thursdays | 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Classical Music with Dave Carty

Saturdays | 4:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Morning Matinee / Classical Music

Weekdays | 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Performance Spotlight / Classical Music

Weekdays | 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Pam DeVier | KCME On-Air Host

A passionate advocate for the arts, Pam DeVier, wears many hats including Administrator for the Visual and Performing Arts Department at UCCS, on-air host for KCME, cellist, Mom, researcher of music, advocate for women’s voices in the arts, and fighter for more equality and kindness in our world.

She grew up in Baltimore where she studied music, theatre and communications, working at a local radio station during college. In her free time, she adores art museums, hiking, traveling and researching under-performed and disenfranchised composers and their works. She has four inspiring and artistic children who keep her constantly entertained and on the run!

Programs

Encountering Mozart

Mondays | 10:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Classical Music with Pam DeVier

Mondays 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Choral Splendor

Sundays | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Women of Note

Tuesdays | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

A Journey Through the Baroque

Tuesdays | 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Music with Friends

Saturdays | 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Dave Hastings | KCME On-Air Host

Classical music was a constant presence in the Williamsburg, Virginia home where David grew up. His father, a NASA engineer, instilled a love of music and the arts from an early age. After high school, David studied theater at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and later moved to New York to attend the Circle-in-the-Square Theater School. While living in New York City, David worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and did volunteer work for the Philharmonia Virtuosi under Richard Kapp. He also began his radio career with jobs at the ABC Radio Networks and the Wall Street Journal Radio Network.

David moved to Colorado Springs in 1990 to work for Unistar Radio Network which was headquartered here at the time. After they relocated, he worked for KIKX and KKFM, but as a lifelong fan of the classics, he was a devoted KCME listener from the moment he discovered this gem in the Rockies. His first on-air appearance with the station was with the KCME Radio Theater started by Clay Rohl. Using actual radio scripts from the 30’s and 40’s we recreated the magic of pre-television radio entertainment. On the 60th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds, we used the original script and performed it live. Starting as a part time announcer, David became a regular on the weekends and is now the nightly host of Nocturnes from 10 till Midnight.

David is also active with the local theater community here in Colorado Springs. He was previously seen as Count Orsini-Rosenberg in Amadeus and as Mr. Mushnik in The Little Shop of Horrors. He is the proud husband of local award-winning actress Lynne Hastings; proud father of two great and talented kids, Trevor and Maya; and proud pet father of one neurotic German Shepherd (Rajah) and one insane cat (Amira).

Programs

Broadway Rhythm

Sundays | 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Classical Music with Dave Hastings

Mondays | 4:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

Nocturnes with Dave Hastings

Weeknights | 10:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

Quinn Riley| KCME On-Air Host

Born and raised in Southern California, Quinn moved to Colorado in 1994, where she began her sojourn in radio doing traffic reports and voiceovers for various Colorado Springs stations. In 2009, Quinn embarked on her career with KCME doing the early morning weekend shifts, eventually moving to weekdays and starting the popular show, Dinner and a Movie.

When she isn’t working, Quinn enjoys watching films, hiking, and spending time with her husband Chris and their three kitties: Shiloh, Bodhi, and Atticus.

Programs

Music of Faith and Inspiration

Sundays | 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Classical Music with Quinn Riley

Weekdays | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Fridays | 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

JJ Sechan| KCME and Jazz 93.5 On-Air Host

Born and raised in the northern suburbs of Chicago, JJ Sechan began his musical studies with jazz saxophone at the age of ten. After switching to bassoon in high school, he went on to receive a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and an Artist Diploma from Oberlin Conservatory, studying with Judith LeClair and George Sakakeeny. JJ moved to Colorado in 2016 to perform with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, Boulder Philharmonic, and Opera Colorado orchestras.

Through his faculty positions at UCCS and CSU-Pueblo, JJ premiered pianist Reggie Berg’s jazz-inspired Bassoon Sonata in 2019, which lead to his wonderfully unlikely position as a radio host at Jazz 93.5. Later that year he also began hosting KCME’s ‘Strike Up the Band’, now known as ‘Incase You Missed It’ (Wednesdays at 6pm).

When not playing bassoon, teaching, or making radio shows, JJ likes to run, bike, and cook. He has tried making the perfect Jewish brisket for the holidays four times previously and is pretty darn confident that THIS time he will get it right.

Programs

No Strings Attached

Fridays | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Michael Campion | KCME On-Air Host

Michael Campion, holds a B.A. in piano performance with graduate work in music theory undertaken at Northern Illinois University.

Michael spent the first 31 years of his life in Chicago, where he worked as a private piano instructor, a classical music buyer for a retail compact disc chain, and classical music consultant at Rose Records, one the largest classical music departments in the world. He has been a writer, reviewer, and teacher in the Colorado Springs area for the past twenty-five years and has worked as program annotator for the DaVinci Quartet, the Thursday Night Recital Series, the Rocky Mountain International Amateur Piano Competition, the Veronika Quartet, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Michael has also appeared in numerous theatre productions in the Chicago and Colorado Springs areas and works as a freelance audio editor and private piano instructor.

Michael’s passion for music began at an early age.

“I remember as a kid the first time I heard Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. I was floored. And when I heard some of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, I knew I had to play those one day. I started piano lessons and then I started to look for other classical composers and was just as inspired by them. It gave me a lifelong love of this incredible music. And one of the things I realized was that I couldn’t keep this amazing music to myself. That led to looking for every opportunity to share it with people through recordings and explaining why this is so great. Some people shrugged it off, others were comfortable listening to more of it, and a few were changed like I was after hearing it. That’s why I teach, and that’s why I’m passionate about sharing the music on KCME. It’s exciting to hear about people who call in saying how much they appreciate what they’re hearing and who want to find recordings of some of these works. That sense of community, that sharing of something is powerful and it’s what brings us together during a very divisive time.”

“It’s amazing to see how the station has grown over the past twenty-five years and how it’s become such a vital part of the community. I’m proud to be a part of it. And to be involved with so many of the arts organizations just makes the connections stronger and the programs better. My work with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, The Chamber Orchestra of the Springs, and the Colorado Springs Conservatory has been fulfilling and rewarding and I’m humbled to have been able to pass on my passion and knowledge to so many others and to hopefully have touched their lives in some way. I’m looking forward to the next twenty-five years.”

Programs

American Landscapes

Mondays | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

The Right Key

Tuesdays | 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Peak Performances

Wednesdays | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Noises, Sounds and Sweet Airs

Sundays | 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Classical Music with Michael Campion

Mondays | 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Tuesdays | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Wednesdays | 4:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Christopher Arroyo | KCME On-Air Host

Christopher Arroyo is an Ecuadorian-American baritone, composer, and horn player.

Born in Quito Ecuador, he moved to the United States with his family, and grew up here in Colorado Springs. Music has always been a major part of his life. He has been singing professionally since 2015, including a performance at Carnegie Hall that featured his choral piece, “The Aurora.” Past roles include Don Giovanni in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” Old Deuteronomy in Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Cats,” and Judd Fry in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” Christopher studied vocal performance and composition at Colorado Mesa University with Dr. Chris McKim, and Dr. Monte Atkinson. He’s an avid fantasy-fan, whether in book form, or playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends.

Programs

Nocturnes

Weekend Nights | 10:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

Classical Music with Chris Arroyo

Thursdays | 4:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Sundays | 4:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.

Michelle Winchell | KCME On-Air Host

Michelle Winchell grew up in Colorado Springs, where her love of all the arts began with visual art classes, playing classical piano, and singing in choir.

She currently serves as director of the Downtown Creative District, where her work builds community and supports a robust creative sector through placemaking, public art, and cultural events. Michelle is delighted to highlight the diverse performing arts scene in the Pikes Peak Region as host of Performance Spotlight. She holds an MFA in Design from Indiana University and a BA in Art from the University of Wyoming.

Programs

Performance Spotlight Interviews

Broadcast weekdays at 10:00 a.m.