13 Facts About Jeremy Eichler

Jeremy Adam Eichler was born on August 13,1974 and is an American music critic and cultural historian.

Jeremy Eichler is set to take on a newly created professorship in music history and public humanities at Tufts University.

Jeremy Eichler received an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where he co-founded the Nahanni String Quartet.

In 2003 Jeremy Eichler began writing music criticism for The New York Times, including reviews and features.

Jeremy Eichler then succeeded Richard Dyer as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe in 2006, where Eichler wrote daily for nearly two decades.

Jeremy Eichler find music criticism a continuously challenging and demanding practice, but credits this as its appeal.

Jeremy Eichler has contributed to a multitude of other publications, including the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, the Washington Post and Vanity Fair.

Jeremy Eichler has received a fellowship from the Center for Jewish History, a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and has taught at Brandeis University.

Jeremy Eichler was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies of Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Humanities named him a "public scholar" in 2018.

Jeremy Eichler subsequently relocated to New York, where he earned a doctorate in history from Columbia University; his doctoral dissertation was on the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

Jeremy Eichler's dissertation won the Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize for Jewish Studies.

Jeremy Eichler is fellow at MacDowell, an artists' residency and workshop where he has worked on the publication.

In June 2024 Jeremy Eichler announced that he would be leaving The Globe and taking up a newly-created professorship in music history and public humanities at Tufts University.