Authority meets artful storytelling.
Anna Reguero is an award-winning music and dance critic, arts reporter, editor, music historian, and educator with over 20 years of experience in newspaper, magazine, and online journalism. Whether writing features on high-profile artists, covering arts and cultural events, reporting breaking news, editing publications, composing program notes, or contributing to academic discourse, Anna brings deep expertise and compelling storytelling to every project. She writes fluidly across art forms and genres, from the canonical to the experimental.
A National Endowment for the Arts Classical Music Journalism fellow, Anna previously served as the music and dance critic and arts reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, the daily paper serving Rochester, NY. During her time there, she earned several awards for her Rochester International Jazz Festival coverage and for launching the paper’s first arts blog. Since then, Anna has held a range of editorial and writing roles. She served as editor of the Eastman School of Music’s alumni magazine, earning “best magazine” and “best feature” honors through the Public Relations Society of America. She has also edited program books for the Aspen Music Festival and contributed program notes for leading concert organizations, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She currently edits the Eastman Case Studies, a publication that puts readers inside the complex decision-making processes faced by leaders of music organizations.
Anna’s scholarly work has been published in academic journals and edited volumes, and her freelance work spans both local and national publications.
Anna earned a PhD in music history and theory from Stony Brook University, where she wrote a dissertation theorizing the contemporary deployment and aesthetics of stylistic pluralism, music considered “post-genre.” She received her journalism training in the inaugural year of the Goldring Arts Journalism Program at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree. She earned a BA in music performance (clarinet) at the Eastman School of Music, where she was also awarded a Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate through the Institute for Music Leadership.
Although she’s most at home writing about classical music, jazz, and dance, her enduring curiosity and strong research skills (and double undergraduate degree in the sciences) equip her to tackle a wide range of subjects.
Beyond her work as a writer, Anna is a university lecturer skilled in teaching a comprehensive range of subjects within music, writing, and journalism/communications departments. She is also available to lead pre-concert chats and other public speaking engagements. In any remaining spare time, Anna still plays her clarinet and enjoys bringing new works to life.
Born in New York City and raised in Connecticut, Anna spent her youth experiencing and partaking in the rich musical and artistic culture of the tri-state area. She now resides in Western New York with her spouse and two children.