Jeremy Eichler is an award-winning critic, essayist, and cultural historian. A Public Scholar grantee of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has worked as a music critic for The New York Times and, since 2006, has served as chief classical music critic of the Boston Globe. His writing -- which has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation, and The Washington Post -- has been recognized with a fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute and an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism. He lives in Boston.