Justin Davidson

He won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for "his crisp coverage of classical music that captures its essence.

[3] Davidson began his journalism career as a local stringer for the Associated Press in Rome, before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard University.

[4] A composer as well as a music critic, Davidson became a staff writer for the Long Island newspaper Newsday in 1996, where he also wrote about architecture.

"[1] As of 2021, Davidson and Alex Ross at The New Yorker are the only classical music critics who write regularly for a general-interest American magazine.

[7] Davidson was among the faculty of D-Crit,[8] and has taught courses at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.