Dr. Jeremy Eichler Receives Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Conservatory
Dr. Jeremy Eichler Receives Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Conservatory
Published on June 14, 2024
Distinguished author, scholar, mentor, and The Royal Conservatory’s 2023-24 Humanist-in-Residence received the highest designation conferred by the RCM.
Dr. Eichler received the Honorary Fellowship at the Convocation ceremony for The Glenn Gould School (GGS) Class of 2024. This cohort was the first to be immersed in a new course based on Dr. Eichler’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning book on music, war and memory, Time’s Echo. Dr. Eichler taught the course with GGS Director of Academics, Dr. Sean Wang, this year.
I am truly honoured and grateful to receive this designation. It’s particularly meaningful after having spent the year working with some of the wonderful students at The Glenn Gould School. I especially appreciate the qualities of openness and curiosity that are clearly hallmarks of the broader Royal Conservatory community.
Dr. Jeremy Eichler, 2023-24 Humanist-in-Residence and Honorary Fellow, The Royal Conservatory
"Dr. Eichler's work as music critic, historian, and author has made a profound and transformative contribution to music and cultural studies. It has been our honour to have him join us this year as Humanist-in-Residence, sharing his brilliant scholarship and inspiring our students and wider community with a deeper understanding of the power and importance of music," remarked Bary Shiffman, Associate Dean, The Glenn Gould School.
Named The Royal Conservatory’s 2023-24 inaugural Humanist-in-Residence this year, Dr. Eichler’s role combined teaching, mentoring and public engagement. In fall 2023, Dr. Eichler partnered with BroadBand Collaborative to introduce
Time’s Echo Live, a new multimedia series exploring musical memory through narrative and live performance. Its premiere at the Goethe Institute was chosen as Musical America’s top Boston event of 2023 and was reprised in March 2024 at Brown University. This past May, he travelled to Hamburg for a special event with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra to celebrate the launch of the book’s German edition, one of eight language translations recently published or forthcoming.
Formerly an NEH Public Scholar, Dr. Eichler is the recipient of an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism and a fellowship from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He earned his PhD in modern European history at Columbia and has taught at Brandeis. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other national publications, and since 2006, he has served as chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe.
Dr. Jeremy Eichler addresses the Class of 2024 at The Glenn Gould School Convocation Ceremony
The Humanist-in-Residence position is supported, in part, by a generous gift from Nance Gelber and Dan Bjarnason.