Joshua Kosman was born on October 27,1959 and is an American music critic who specializes in classical music.
10 Facts About Joshua Kosman
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Joshua Kosman was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27,1959.
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Joshua Kosman attended Yale College, receiving a Bachelor of Arts, and the University of California, Berkeley for a Master of Arts.
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From 1988 to 2024, Joshua Kosman was a music critic of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Joshua Kosman was hand-picked in 1993 by the music critic Robert Commanday to succeed him as chief classical music critic for the Chronicle.
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Joshua Kosman frequently wrote on contemporary classical music, promoting composers such as John Adams, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Gordon, Chen Yi, and Lisa Bielawa.
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Joshua Kosman won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, and ASCAP, who gave him the 2006 Deems Taylor Award for music criticism.
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Joshua Kosman is a former vice president of the Music Critics Association of North America.
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Joshua Kosman maintains a classical music blog, On a Pacific Aisle.
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Outside of music, Joshua Kosman made weekly cryptic crosswords for The Nation from 2011 to 2020.