Michael Brodeur will become The Post’s classical music critic

By WashPostPR

March 5, 2020 at 9:29 a.m. EST

Announcement from Executive Features Editor Liz Seymour and Deputy Features Editors David Malitz and Mitch Rubin:

We are delighted to announce that Michael Brodeur, a writer, critic and editor who has worked most recently at the Boston Globe, will become The Post’s classical music critic.

For the past decade, Michael has served as an assistant arts editor and cultural critic for the Boston Globe, overseeing the paper’s Sunday Books section and writing the Globe’s weekly @large column on a range of topics in the arts and digital culture.

Before the Globe, he served as music editor and lead music critic for the Boston Phoenix and as editor in chief of Boston's Weekly Dig. His essays, humor and criticism have also appeared in Nylon, Thrillist, Entrepreneur, Medium, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and other publications.

A native of Fitchburg, Mass., Michael graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in poetry and an MFA in creative writing. He has also released five music albums under different monikers, most recently writing and performing electronic music under the name New Dad.

For the past four years, he and his husband have lived in Houston, where his husband was the director of public art at Rice University.

Please join us in welcoming Michael when he arrives March 9.