A writer, scholar and critic, Jeremy Eichler is the author of Time’s Echo, an internationally acclaimed book on music, war and memory that was named “History Book of the Year” by The Sunday Times and hailed as “the outstanding music book of this and several years” by the Times Literary Supplement. Chosen as a notable book of 2023 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and NPR, Time’s Echo won three National Jewish Book Awards including “Book of the Year,” and was a finalist for the UK’s premier non-fiction award, the Baillie Gifford Prize. Currently being translated into nine languages, Time’s Echo is also the recipient of the 2024 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society for “studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.”
Eichler served for 18 years as chief classical music critic of the Boston Globe, and in fall 2024 took up a newly created professorship in music history and the public humanities at Tufts University. During the 2024-25 season, he also serves as the first Writer-in-Residence of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Formerly an NEH Public Scholar, Eichler is the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for distinguished music criticism and a fellowship from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. His writing has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker among other national publications.
Website: https://jeremy-eichler.com/