David Patrick Stearns

David Patrick Stearns is a freelance contributor to Classical Voices North America, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the WQXR blog in New York, Gramophone and Opera News. On screen, he scripted segments of the syndicated PBS show Articulate with Jim Cotter, as well as two documentary films, including David Amram: The First 80 Years. On radio, he was a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition. He has reported numerous news and feature pieces for WRTI-FM in Philadelphia. For the Inquirer and WRTI, he has covered Philadelphia Orchestra tours in Europe, Japan, China, Mongolia and Israel. He studied voice in the studio of Marjorie Lawrence at Southern Illinois University and holds a master's degree in musicology from New York University. His artsjournal.com blog is titled Condemned to Music. He now lives in Brooklyn with four cats in what he describes as "the public library but with more furniture."