MID DAY CLASSICS WITH LAURA BRODIAN
Weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (PT).
A graduate of Kean University in 1972, Doctor Laura Brodian Freas is a voiceover artist and classical music personality on radio station KCSN in Los Angeles. Her classical music announcing positions were at WFIUI, Bloomington, Indiana, KQED–FM San Francisco, KUSC, Los Angeles, and KMZT, Los Angeles. At KMZT she delivered preconcert lectures via podcasts for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Formerly the host of Delta Symphony, she is the voice of Delta Jazz for Delta Airlines.
A past President of the Southern California Early Music Society, she has a doctorate in Music Education, but also attended art classes at Indiana University’s School of Fine Arts and at the California Art Institute. Her cover and interior artwork has been published by, among others, TSR, The Easton Press, Analog Magazine of Science Fiction/Fact, Weird Tales, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine.
Laura was a co–recipient [with Frank Kelly Freas] of The Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists [ASFA]’s Chesley Award for Best Cover of the Year. Laura has also served as ASFA’s Western Regional Director, and is a Judge in the L. Ron Hubbard “Illustrators of the Future Contest.”
One of her passions is costuming. She is a former Director–at–Large of Costumer’s Guild West and a WesterCon Masquerade winner and a WorldCon Masquerade Judge. She also founded the Collinsport Players performing troupe when she was the MC at the first annual Dark Shadows Festival.
Another of her passions is English Regency Dancing, which she also teaches. Laura founded the [San Francisco] Bay Area English Regency Society. A member of the International Association of Astronomical Artists, Laura is the widow of science fiction’s favorite illustrator, Frank Kelly Freas, with whom she co–edited the fourth volume of his collected works, “FRANK KELLY FREAS: AS HE SEES IT” in 2000.
