Philip Kennicott Biography
Philip Kennicott is The Washington Post’s chief art and architecture critic. Kennicott was born in Schenectady, New York, and attended piano lessons with composer and musician Joseph Fennimore.
Philip Kennicott Age
He was born and raised in Schenectady, New York, the United States of America.
Philip Kennicott Education
He enrolled at Deep Springs College in 1983 before moving to Yale in 1986. Kennicott received his summa cum laude degree in philosophy in 1988.
Is Philip Kennicott Married?- Wife
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don’t have much information about He’s past relationship and any previous engaged.
Philip Kennicott Books- Career
Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning (Norton 2020) is Kennicott’s first book. Kennicott was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. He has previously been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice: in 2012, he was a runner-up for the criticism prize, and in 2000, he was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Editorial Writing for a series on gun control in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2015, he was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in the Essays and Criticism category for an article he submitted to Virginia Quarterly Review; same work, “Smuggler, was also included in the 2015 book Best American Essays. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2006 for a Web-based video diary about democracy and oil money in Azerbaijan.
From 1988 until 1995, Kennicott worked as an editor for many classical music periodicals in New York, including Senior Editor of Musical America and Editor of Chamber Music Magazine. In 1995, he was appointed classical music critic for the Detroit News, and later Chief Classical Music Critic for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He joined the Washington Post in 1999 as Chief Classical Music Critic, later rising to Culture Critic in 2001 and Art and Architecture Critic in 2011. Kennicott was also a contributing editor at The New Republic, where he authored classical music articles, and a Gramophone critic and writer.
The Wall Street Journal hailed Kennicott’s debut book, Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning, as “a book full of arresting insights about the way music permeates our lives, as well as heartbreaking reflections on the wounds a parent can inflict on a child.” He’s also written for Richard Giannone’s Music in Willa Cather’s Fiction and Renato Mirraco’s Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875-1900. Kennicott frequently attends national and international conferences, such as the Aspen Ideas Festival, the CATO Institute, and the World Justice Forum IV at the Hague.
Philip Kennicott Net Worth
Philip has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.