Jeremy Adam Eichler was born on August 13, 1974.^[1][3] Growing up in Newton, Massachusetts, he played violin and viola in his youth, playing the latter in youth orchestras.^[4] He received an undergraduate degree from Brown University,^[4] where he co-founded the Nahanni String Quartet.^[1]

In 2003 Eichler began writing music criticism for The New York Times, including reviews and features.^[4] He then succeeded Richard Dyer as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe in 2006, where Eichler continues to write daily.^[1] According to the musicologist Andrea F. Bohlman in Grove Music Online, he "draws attention to local performers and the city’s conservatory students alongside more established musicians".^[1] Eichler find music criticism a continuously challenging and demanding practice, but credits this as its appeal.^[4] His concert reviews often both narrate and review the event in question and in doing so they promote the merit of live performances.^[1] At the Globe Eichler also writes his own column, "Third Ear", which connects "music with broader worlds of history, politics, and culture."^[5]

He 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.^[1][6] ASCAP awarded him the Deems Taylor Award for Music Criticism in 2013.^[7] He has received a fellowship from the Center for Jewish History, a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and has taught at Brandeis University.^[8] He was also 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.^[6] He is also a cultural historian.^[6][8]

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.^[4][8] Published in 2015, the topic in discussion was Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw, a large-scale cantata that was the earliest Holocaust musical memorial from a major composer.^[4][9] His dissertation won the Columbia University's Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize for Jewish Studies.^[4] Eichler's 2023 book Time's Echo^[6] examines the "relationship of cultural memory and music composed in the wake of the Second World War".^[8] Among the works discussed are Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar and Metamorphosen by Richard Strauss.^[8] It was published by Alfred A. Knopf and Faber and Faber in North America and the United Kingdom respectively.^[10] He is fellow at MacDowell, an artists' residency and workshop where he has worked on the publication.^[6]

• Eichler, Jeremy (2015). The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of 'A Survivor from Warsaw' (Ph.D.). New York: Columbia University. OCLC 982310805.
• —— (2023). Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-525-52171-6.

Articles edit

• Eichler, Jeremy (October 30, 2005). "Dispatches From Between Two Notes". The New York Times.
• —— (August 20, 2012). "String Theorist". The New Yorker.
• —— (October 27, 2012). "Composed in Marble". The Boston Globe. Reprinted as "Beethoven wandering" on Eichler's website.

• Official website
• Articles by Jeremy Eichler in The Boston Globe
• Articles by Jeremy Eichler in The New York Times
• Jeremy Eichler's column, the "Third Ear", in The Boston Globe
• Jeremy Eichler on the Muck Rack journalist listing site
• Jeremy Eichler on Twitter
• Profile for Jeremy Eichler on Boston.com