Terrance McKnight is a commentator, curator, writer, author, pianist, and weekday evening host for WQXR, New York’s only all-classical music station.

All Ears with Terrance McKnight, a series about musical discovery, was honored with an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award.

He serves as the artistic advisor for the Harlem Chamber Players, the Hermitage, and is on the board of MacDowell. As a curator and presenter, he has worked with organizations across the country, including Carnegie Hall, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, The Apollo Theater, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, among others.

McKnight has hosted concerts for The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts, and the American Pianists Association Competition. He has participated on panels for Chamber Music America, the Mellon Foundation, American Opera Projects, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, ASCAP and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Earlier in his career, he was a professor in the music department at Morehouse University. McKnight is the author of Concert Black, an upcoming book (Abrams Publishing) about the black experience in classical music.