Alex Ross (music critic)

Alex Ross was born on January 12, 1968, in Washington, D.C. He attended the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia and St. Albans School in Washington, DC, graduating in 1986. He was a 1990 graduate of Harvard University, where he studied under composer Peter Lieberson and was a DJ on the classical and underground rock departments of the college radio station, WHRB. During his time at Harvard he first began music criticism, writing reviews for Fanfare, a classical music magazine. His second book, Listen to This, was released in the U.S. in September 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and was published in the U.K. in November 2010. In September 2020, his third book, Wagnerism, came out. Ross married director Jonathan Lisecki in Canada in 2006. He is now based in New York City, living in Chelsea, Manhattan. ==Selected bibliography ==

Ross has received a MacArthur Fellowship (2008), three ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for music writing, and a Holtzbrinck fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. In 2016, he was awarded the Champion of New Music award by the American Composers Forum. ==References==