Eugene Drucker

Eugene Drucker's novel, "The Savior," was published by Simon & Schuster in 2007 and subsequently appeared in a German translation called "Wintersonate." A second novel, "Yearning," is scheduled for publication by Austin Macauley in 2021.

A founding member of the Emerson String Quartet in 1976, Drucker is also an active violin soloist. He has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Hartford, Richmond, Omaha, Jerusalem, and the Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and the Las Vegas Philharmonic. A graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, Drucker was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, with which he appeared as soloist several times. He made his New York debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner in the fall of 1976, after having won prizes at the Montreal Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Mr. Drucker has recorded the complete unaccompanied violin works of Bach for Parnassus Records and the complete sonatas and duos of Bartók for Biddulph Recordings.

With the Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker gives 70 concerts per year all over the world. The quartet’s discography spans the entire history of the string quartet from Haydn to contemporary works and has been rewarded with 9 Grammys and 3 Gramophone Magazine Awards.

Drucker's compositional debut, a setting of four sonnets by Shakespeare, was premiered by baritone Andrew Nolen and the Escher String Quartet at Stony Brook in 2008; the songs have appeared as part of a 2-CD release called "Stony Brook Soundings," issued by Bridge Recordings in the spring of 2010. Subsequent works include "Series of Twelve" (a suite for string quartet); "Madness and the Death of Ophelia," a musical adaptation of four scenes from Hamlet; and two song cycles based on the poetry of Denise Levertov, for high voice and strings.