Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim is an award-winning music critic and cultural entrepreneur dedicated to helping people become better listeners. From 2012-2021, she was a contributing classical music critic to the New York Times. Corinna is the recipient of the 2021 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Criticism and a 2018 residency at the American Academy in Rome. In 2019, she founded Beginner’s Ear, a program of transformative listening experiences, which has brought live music meditations to diverse audiences and spaces, including a yoga loft, a sunken garden, a federal detention center, a dance studio, an independent high school, as well as more traditional music venues.