12/05/2025
Tyler Kline Launches Living Classical – A Two-Hour Weekly Radio Program Expanding the Sound of Contemporary Classical Music
Composer, broadcaster, and producer Tyler Kline announces the launch of Living Classical with Tyler Kline, a new two-hour weekly radio program debuting in December 2025. Offered to stations nationwide via The PRX Exchange, streaming on-demand at livingclassicalradio.com, and airing on select flagship stations across the U.S., Living Classical continues Kline’s mission to connect listeners with the artists shaping classical music today.
The series marks a natural evolution of Kline’s nationally syndicated program Modern Notebook, which he hosted and produced from 2019 to 2025. Over its six-year tenure, Modern Notebook featured more than 1,000 living composers – including 55% women and nonbinary artists and 50% composers of color – establishing one of the most inclusive new-music platforms in American public radio.
Parallel to his broadcast work, Kline has hosted more than 40 long-form artist interviews on his podcast music/Maker with Tyler Kline, deepening his ongoing exploration of how composers think, work, and live. Living Classical unites these threads into a single curatorial voice, presenting contemporary classical music as a living, evolving art form that embraces many genres, aesthetics, and communities.
Kline says this about the program:
“Living Classical is about showcasing the freshness of music being created today for the concert stage – music that continues the Western classical tradition while expanding what that boundary means. By centering the stories of living composers, we humanize the people making this art and remind listeners that this isn’t music as museum. It’s music that’s alive with the same thoughts, feelings, and experiences we all share in today’s world. And radio is such a powerful platform for that: it allows us to elevate the work of so many composers who deserve to be heard, reaching listeners on a scale that few other mediums can.”
Radio remains one of the most democratic spaces for contemporary classical music, and Living Classical aims to use that reach to its fullest. Through careful curation and thoughtful storytelling, Kline’s program amplifies not only the widely recognized voices shaping today’s music, but also the overlooked and emerging ones who bring new depth, perspective, and diversity to the field.
Living Classical with Tyler Kline will debut the week of December 7, 2025 with a series of winter-themed specials, leading into the full-season rollout in early 2026.
