Krystal is a producer at WQXR. Her love of music and background in Music Therapy brought her to the station in 2016 to help produce their Instrument Drive.
Since then she's spearheaded a number of the stations community engagement initiatives including Music In Schools, our quarterly Classical Kids Fairs and most recently our Active Listening Challenge.
Krystal is an alumni of Berklee College of Music and an accomplished jazz singer who also composer of childrens music. She lives with her husband in Brooklyn.
Krystal Hawes-Dressler appears in the following:
Bonus: Flutist Brandon Patrick George in Conversation with Darren Walker
Thursday, August 04, 2022
This week, we are re-releasing a conversation between flutist Brandon Patrick George and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, from November 2021.
Musician Esperanza Spalding on Community and Satisfaction
Friday, May 08, 2020
Esperanza Spalding joins Helga mere weeks before her most recent Grammy win to talk about what it means to truly be a part of a community and how to find the “the yum” in things.
Poet Elizabeth Alexander on Loss and Livelihood
Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Poet and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President, Elizabeth Alexander shares her thoughts on a life alongside words, maintaining relationships, and what the world looks like after loss.
Ranky Tanky’s Clay Ross and Charlton Singleton on Belonging
Friday, May 01, 2020
Gullah Band, Ranky Tanky, talk about the tradition of the music they play, where it’s been and where they’d like to take it next.
Chef Maury Rubin on His Unexpected Foray Into Pastry
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Pastry Chef Maury Rubin joins us in the wake of the closing of New York restaurant, City Bakery.
Singer Judy Collins on Loss, Addiction, and Passion
Friday, April 24, 2020
Musician and activist Judy Collins shares the story of her decades long career. Alongside loss and addiction she maintains a clarity of voice, passion and vision as a conduit for music.
Model Bethann Hardison on Accountability in Fashion
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Activist, entrepreneur, and former model Bethann Hardison recounts moments from her unconventional life.
Artist Stanley Whitney on Black Identity and Abstraction
Friday, April 17, 2020
Visual artist and colorist, Stanley Whitney talks about life as an artist and as a person. He uncovers what it means to be a black abstract painter, firmly rooted in the United States.
On Being’s Krista Tippett on the Cultivation of Her Craft
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Krista Tippett talks about her life as a mother, daughter, lover and leader and the ways that all of those roles converge in her work as host of the podcast, On Being.
