Short Bio

Author – Producer - Broadcaster

Author of the classic work The Art of the Interview (Silman-James Press (2007), writer, producer and distinguished broadcaster Martin Perlich has for the last decade hosted and produced the acclaimed live interview series ARF!! (ARTS & ROOTS FORUM) The show, which aired daily on Los Angeles public radio, featured major cultural figures, from Stacy Keach to Terry Riley to Sandra Tsing Loh to avant-garde playwright Murray Mednick, as well as dozens of Arts figures: writers, directors, choreographers, and musical figures from Jazz, World music, and of course classical music, with many 21st century composers – known and unknown.

From 2000-8 Martin served as Program Director responsible for all programming of innovative LA public radio station KCSN, named “Best of LA” by Los Angeles Magazine in 2006. In addition Perlich hosted an acclaimed daily classical and New Music show. His historic interview show Martin Perlich Interviews featuring Leonard Bernstein, Frank Zappa, R. Crumb, Pierre Boulez, Tom Waits and hundreds more, was syndicated nationally by WCLV/Seaway productions. The program won the New York International Radio Festival for two consecutive years. In his lengthy broadcast career he has amassed a huge archive of interviews: from Gore Vidal to John Adams, to Bill Evans.

Perlich’s early work was in musicology. After studying with distinguished American composer Douglas Moore at Columbia University, he was for seven years Intermission Host of the internationally syndicated Cleveland Orchestra radiobroadcasts

His award-winning Martin Perlich Interviews was syndicated nationally and aired locally on innovative public radio station KCSN, where he was Program Director of, as well as classical Host and interviewer.

In the 60s Perlich was a pioneer in "experimental radio" beginning in 1972 with KMET in L.A. and in 1996 was honored by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In 1975 Perlich became Creative Consultant of NBC- "The Midnight Special. In the 80s he developed and produced dramatic and musical programming at PBS's KCET in Los Angeles and WNET in New York, and a feature film “The Trial of Ramona Africa” with Whoopi Goldberg for American Playhouse and Channel 4 in London.