Judith Krummeck — broadcaster | writer | immigrant

Judith Krummeck has been WBJC’s evening drive-time host since 1998. Before immigrating to the United States, she was the arts editor for SAfm at the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she also presented live symphony concerts for SABC-TV. Judith was given the Praise Singer Award for her arts programming from South Africa’s Foundation for the Creative Arts, and she has twice been named Baltimore’s Best by Baltimore Magazine. Judith was a drama and history of art major at the University of Cape Town, and she was a professional actor in Cape Town before turning to broadcasting. She also holds a history of music qualification from the University of South Africa and an  MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore. She is the author of Beyond the Baobab, a collection of essays about her immigrant experience. Her biographical memoir, Old New Worlds, which intertwines her immigrant story with that of her great-great-grandmother, was a finalist in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards.  As a teacher, Judith has lectured at the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch, and for the Odyssey and Osher programs at Johns Hopkins University. Judith lives in Baltimore City with her husband, Douglas Blackstone, a musician and attorney.

Judith can be reached at jkrummeck@bccc.edu

You can link to Judith’s website here: http://judithkrummeck.com

Judith’s Articles:

Music is Life
The Food of Love
Different Eyes and Ears
“In sweet music is such art…”

recent posts:

• New on the Bookshelf at The Walters

    Last June, The Walters Art Museum inaugurated a new exhibition space to introduce rare books and manuscripts added to the Walters permanent collection in recent years, many of which have never been on view. I invited Lynley Anne Herbert, the Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, into the BookNotes studio […]

• Reimagining Shakespeare

  We speak often on WBJC about the composers who were inspired by Shakespeare—from Mendelssohn and A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the 20th century version of Romeo and Juliet in the form of West Side Story. What is perhaps not as well known is how Shakespeare himself was inspired by other creatives. With a genius like […]

• A swansong for Mark Cudek

      Having founded the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble thirty-six years ago in 1988, Mark Cudek will conduct the group for the last time in a concert called “Music for Joan the Mad,” inspired by Marjorie Sandor’s book “The Secret Music at Tordesillas,” at Peabody and St. David’s Roland Park. Please click on the link below […]