Jacob Eichhorn is a clarinetist and Ph.D. candidate in music theory at the Eastman School of Music. His research focuses on musical meaning in twentieth- and twenty-first century concert music with a secondary interest in American roots music, especially Dolly Parton’s vast output. In his dissertation, “Daughter-Flower-(Whale)-Kaiju: Music as Science Fiction,” he takes seriously science fiction and its implications for the real world; inspired by feminist thinker, Donna Haraway, he uses science fiction as a critical reading strategy for experimental and avant-garde contemporary concert music to propose new ways of listening to and thinking about music and sound. He is the recipient of the 2024 Eastman TA Prize for Teaching Excellence and the MTSE 2023 Irna Priore Prize for Student Research. He holds a DMA in clarinet performance and pedagogy from the University of Colorado Boulder and performs regularly with new music ensembles at Eastman. He is the bass clarinet for Colorado MahlerFest and is serving his second year as co-editor of Intégral.