Eugene Drucker

Eugene Drucker has received nine Grammys for his recordings with the Emerson String Quartet. As a violin soloist, he has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, and Jerusalem, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. A graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he was concertmaster of the orchestra, Mr. Drucker has recorded the complete unaccompanied violin works of Bach and the complete sonatas and duos of Bartók. His first novel, The Savior, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and appeared in a German translation called Wintersonate. Mr. Drucker has set several Shakespeare sonnets and four scenes from Hamlet for voice and string quartet. His other compositions include At the Edge of the Cliff (five settings of poems by Denise Levertov) and Series of Twelve, a string quartet. He is Music Director of the Berkshire Bach Society’s Bach at New Year’s concerts, teaches at Stony Brook University and lives in New York with his wife, cellist Roberta Cooper.