In Live performances from the Hollywood Bowl to New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, from Paris to Hong Kong, and in his continuing series of recordings for Arabesque, Bruce Brubaker is a visionary virtuoso and an artistic provocateur. His playing, writing, and collaborations have shown a shining, and sometimes surprising future for pianists and piano playing.

Mr. Brubaker has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the St. Louis Symphony’s Copland 2000 Festival, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, Tanglewood, Antwerp’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and at Finland’s Kuhmo Festival. Recent appearances include performances at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies, and as part of Carnegie Hall’s tribute to Meredith Monk at Zankel Hall.

Bruce Brubaker’s most recent CD, Hope Street Tunnel Blues, was released in 2007. The recording features music by Philip Glass and Alvin Curran, and includes Mr. Brubaker’s series for Arabesque Recordings, featuring music by Philip Glass, John Cage, Alvin Curran, and a live recording of Adam’s monumental Phrygian Gates. The first disc in the series, Glass Cage, was named one of the best releases of the year by New Yorker Magazine.

Mr. Brubaker studied at the Juilliard School, and later joined the school’s graduate faculty. For the first time in Juilliard’s history, he created an interdisciplinary performance course bringing together musicians, actors, and dancers. In 2004, he joined the faculty at the New England Conservatory. He is currently the chair of the conservatory’s piano department.

For more information, please visit: www.brucebrubaker.com

(August 2008)