Corinna da
Fonseca
Wollheim
As a music critic and cultural entrepreneur, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim is dedicated to deepening the art of listening. Since 2012 she has contributed hundreds of reviews, features and essays on classical music to the New York Times.
Corinna da Fonseca Wollheim
As a music critic and cultural entrepreneur, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim is dedicated to deepening the art of listening. Since 2012 she has contributed hundreds of reviews, features and essays on classical music to the New York Times. Her writing has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Tablet, Symphony Magazine, the Strad, Art News and the Jerusalem Post. In 2019 she founded Beginner’s Ear, a program of transformative listening experiences centered on meditation and live music, which has reached diverse audiences in corporations, yoga studios, schools, a federal detention center, and in traditional arts venues.
Born to German parents in Brussels, she obtained degrees from the University of London, the University of Sussex, and Cambridge University, where she wrote her Ph.D thesis on the Jewish-Venetian poet Sara Copio Sullam.
