About

RoeDeo Productions was founded by Benjamin K. Roe, who’s been active in music, culture, and news reporting, production, research, and strategy in public broadcasting for more than 25 years. For 20 years Ben worked in National Public Radio’s Cultural Programming Division, the only media organization ever to be recognized with a National Medal of The Arts (2000) from the White House.

At NPR, Ben served in a variety of capacities, ultimately as the Director of Music Initiatives, responsible for the conceptualization, development, and management of music initiatives across a range of broadcast and distribution platforms, culminating in a blueprint for the November 2007 launch of NPR Music on www.npr.org – an online music “supersite” for NPR and public radio stations.

In his 20 years at NPR Ben produced countless live broadcasts, studio recordings, special programs and remote events for the network, and oversaw such notable NPR programs as Creators at Carnegie, Performance Today, SymphonyCast, Piano Jazz, Jazz Profiles, and NPR World of Opera, as well as New Year’s Day from Vienna, Jazz Piano Christmas from the Kennedy Center, Christmas from the World Café, the Arkansas Traveler: Music & Tales from “Little House on the Prairie; the Ray Charles Memorial Concert, the five-hour “Higher Ground” benefit concert at Lincoln Center for hurricane relief, the annual King Celebration concerts in Altanta, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Toast of the Nation, NPR’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast that became the first network program in history to broadcast in 5.1 Surround Sound in 2004.

In 2005, Mr. Roe received a Chairman’s Medal from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2000, a Grammy Award® (NPR’s first) (“Best Choral Recording”) for his role as Senior Producer of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem by the Washington Chorus. Mr. Roe is also the winner of a George Foster Peabody Award a Gabriel Award, prizes from the New York International Radio Festivals, well as an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award.

Mr. Roe has produced recordings that have appeared on the Sony Classical, EMI Classics, Nonesuch, Dorian, and NPR Classics CD labels, and is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.