Debra Lew Harder

Ms. Lew Harder came to the Met from WRTI, Philadelphia’s classical-music public radio station in Philadelphia. At the Met, her responsibilities include hosting the Toll Brothers—Metropolitan Opera Saturday Matinee Radio Broadcasts and the twice-weekly broadcasts throughout the season on Met Opera Radio on SiriusXM channel 355.

She has brought rich and varied experience to the position stemming from her many years of interviewing artists and serving on the applied music faculties of Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College. Ms. Lew Harder is also an excellent concert pianist. She has recorded two solo albums and performed with orchestras and in recitals, including at Wigmore Hall in London, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, among others.