Jacob Eichhorn (he/him) is a music theorist and clarinetist pursuing his PhD in Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music. Buttressed by gender studies and queer theory, his research focuses on closure, agency and action, and corpus study and analysis of popular music and roots music including bluegrass and traditional Appalachian ballads. He also studies performance as analysis in twentieth- and twenty-first century Western art music. Prior to his studies at Eastman, Jacob earned his DMA in Clarinet Performance and Pedagogy and his MM in Music Theory from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Jacob has presented research at national and international conferences and received numerous accolades including the Irna Priorie Prize for Student Research at the 2023 Music Theory Southeast conference and Second Place  in the Research Competition at the 2022 International Clarinet Association conference. He served as secretary to Intégral for Volume 36 and serves as co-editor for Volume 37.

A North Carolina native, Jacob enjoys hiking the Appalachian trail and a good barbecue sandwich, and he can often be spotted playing bass clarinet in DVSO (virtual) and OSSIA New Music Ensemble (nonvirtual). He enjoys reading science fiction novels, baking, and cycling the many bike paths Rochester, NY, has to offer.