Melinda Whiting

MELINDA WHITING is a communications consultant based in the Philadelphia area, with clients including ArtistYear, the Neubauer Family Foundation, and WRTI-FM, the public radio service of Temple University. She is also a classical music host for WRTI.

Ms. Whiting served the Curtis Institute of Music for fourteen years in multiple roles. As vice president for communications she directed the visibility, public relations, marketing, and branding strategies of the world-renowned music conservatory. As senior editor she oversaw a semiannual magazine, programs, online communications, and story development. Previously she was editor in chief of SYMPHONY, the bimonthly magazine of the League of American Orchestras, which won repeated ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in music journalism during her tenure. For several years, she was also the League’s director of communications, becoming a national spokesperson for the orchestra industry. 

Ms. Whiting has enjoyed a long career as an award-winning broadcaster—planning, producing, and presenting classical music and arts programs and anchoring and reporting news on National Public Radio, WQXR–New York, WHYY–Philadelphia, and American Public Radio. She was a frequent host, producer, and editor on the daily public radio program Performance Today; produced a concert series from the Marlboro Music Festival; and was the radio voice of the New York Philharmonic and the Saint Louis Symphony.

Ms. Whiting sang professionally for 20 years with several early music ensembles in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington. She is a member of the board of directors of the Presser Foundation and Network for New Music, a former officer of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, and a former member of the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.