Matthew Gurewitsch

Matthew Gurewitsch is an internationally oriented cultural commentator. In 2011, he took up full-time residence on the Hawaiian island of Maui after three decades in Manhattan. He serves as specialist in classical music at AIR MAIL (airmail.news), the online weekly launched by Graydon Carter. Matthew's interests range broadly through the performing and fine arts. A senior editor of Connoisseur magazine in the 1980s, he has worked as an independent journalist since the early 1990s, contributing regularly to such leading publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian, among many others. His principal outlet has been The New York Times, for which he has covered classical music with an emphasis on opera and song, pop music, theater, Old Masters, living artists, dance, circus, and film.