Philip Kennicott is the senior art and architecture critic at The Washington Post, where he has been on staff since 1999, first as classical music critic, then as culture critic. A regular contributor to Gramophone and Opera News, he was previously a contributing editor at The New Republic. Kennicott has also been chief classical music critic for the Detroit News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he also wrote editorials.

He is the author of "Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning," and his essay, “Smuggler,” was anthologized in the 2015 volume of Best American Essays and a finalist for the National Magazine Award. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Kennicott won the 2013 Pulitzer for Criticism.

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