Sarah Zaslaw - Host, Midday Music
Sarah Zaslaw grew up in the waterfall-studded town of Ithaca, New York. She started violin lessons at age four. Sarah holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard and a master of arts from the University of Michigan, both in European history. She got her first radio experience during college, at WHRB in Cambridge, Mass., and only returned to radio in 1998, when she joined the staff of Georgia Public Broadcasting. (In the intervening years, she had edited books, learned languages and played in orchestras.)

In 2000 her weekly thematic show A Musical Offering won the Georgia Association of Broadcasters' Gabby Award for best locally produced radio program. Since 2000 she has programmed and hosted GPB's midday classical program, Midday Music (formerly Soundscapes). She lives with her family in Atlanta.

Alan Cooke - Host, Midday Music Augusta
Alan Cooke was born in Memphis, spent his early childhood in eastern Washington, grew up in Augusta, studied psychology at the University of Georgia and music composition and theory in graduate school at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Alan plays guitar and has been a session player in recording studios since the early 1960s. He has been Vice President for production at Radio Theatre Group, a commercial music production company active in Cincinnati and Chicago, music director for Brenda Lee, and, since 1979, station manager for WACG in Augusta, where he records dozens of concerts each year for broadcast.

Alan serves on the boards of directors of the Augusta Opera Association, the Augusta Choral Society, The Riverwalk Series, and on the artistic advisory committee of the Augusta Symphony Orchestra. His personal passions include his granddaughters, Cairn terriers, playing guitar and golf.