Zachary Woolfe

As a teenager in the 1990s, Woolfe discovered the online opera magazine Parterre Box by James Jorden, whose pages he "returned to again and again".{{sfn|Woolfe|2023}} Woolfe later studied at Princeton University.{{cite web | title=Zachary Woolfe | website=The New York Times | date=June 13, 2018 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/by/zachary-woolfe | access-date=April 8, 2022 | archive-date=April 4, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220404153544/https://www.nytimes.com/by/zachary-woolfe | url-status=live }} Although he "had written a little bit for newspapers in college", he had not anticipated a career in journalism.{{cite web |last=Taylor |first=Mark |date=January 12, 2022 |title=NYT Classical Music Editor Zachary Woolfe on Music Journalism |publisher=San Francisco Conservatory of Music |url=https://sfcm.edu/newsroom/nyt-classical-music-editor-zachary-woolfe-music-journalism |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=January 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113225740/https://sfcm.edu/newsroom/nyt-classical-music-editor-zachary-woolfe-music-journalism |url-status=live }} In 2008, however, a friend at The New York Observer asked Woolfe to assist in coverage of the 2008 US Open tennis tournament. After additional writing for the paper, Woolfe was offered a regular column in 2009, devoted to opera.

In 2011 Woolfe started working as a freelance music critic for The New York Times, reporting on opera festivals in the US and internationally. In 2015 he became classical music editor, before being appointed as chief classical music critic in 2022.{{cite news |last1=Cruz |first1=Gilbert |last2=Michel |first2=Sia |author-link2=Sia Michel |date=April 5, 2022 |title=Zachary Woolfe Named Classical Music Critic |publisher=The New York Times Company |url=https://www.nytco.com/press/zachary-woolfe-named-classical-music-critic/ |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=April 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408174311/https://www.nytco.com/press/zachary-woolfe-named-classical-music-critic/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Steve |date=2017 |title=Zachary Woolfe: Curating Cultural Experiences in the Digital Domain |work=National Sawdust Log |url=https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2017/04/21/zachary-woolfe-curating-cultural-experiences-in-the-digital-domain/ |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016194038/https://nationalsawdust.org/thelog/2017/04/21/zachary-woolfe-curating-cultural-experiences-in-the-digital-domain/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Music Critics' Round-Table |publisher=92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association |url=https://www.92y.org/event/music-critics-round-table |access-date=April 6, 2022 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414133948/https://www.92y.org/event/music-critics-round-table |url-status=live }}

• {{cite book |last1=Woolfe |first1=Zachary |last2=Ross |first2=Alex |author-link2=Alex Ross (music critic) |editor-last1=Beckerman |editor-first1=Michael |editor-last2=Boghossian |editor-first2=Paul |editor-link2=Paul Boghossian |year=2021 |title=Classical Music: Contemporary Perspectives and Challenges |chapter=The Evolving Role of Music Journalism |publisher=Open Book Publishers |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-1-80064-116-7 |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=Q7goEAAAQBAJ}} |ref=no }}

{{for|other articles by Zachary Woolfe|#External links}}

• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=October 23, 2011 |title=Charles Hamm, Author on American Popular Music, Dies at 86 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/arts/music/charles-hamm-author-on-american-popular-music-dies-at-86.html |ref=no }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=March 17, 2013 |title=Start With Adolescent Spirit, Then Grow into a Role |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/arts/music/verdis-traviata-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=April 17, 2013 |title=With Pulitzer, She Became a Composer |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/arts/music/caroline-shaw-award-winning-composer.html |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=January 24, 2014 |title=When It Comes to Nymphs and Princes, Water and Earth Don't Mix |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/arts/music/a-rusalka-with-two-sides-at-the-metropolitan-opera.html|ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=November 7, 2017 |title=At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It's Never Been Sung Before |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/arts/music/metropolitan-opera-high-note-exterminating-angel.html |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite web |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=February 14, 2020 |title=Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-review.html |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first=Zachary |date=April 29, 2021 |title=The Renaissance's Most Influential Composer, 500 Years Later |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/29/arts/music/josquin-des-prez-classical-music.html |ref=no |author-mask=2 }}
• {{cite news |last=Woolfe |first= Zachary |date=December 1, 2023 |title=Filth and dementia |work=Parterre Box |url=https://parterre.com/2023/12/01/filth-and-dementia/ |author-mask=2 }}

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