Bruce Brubaker’s most recent CD, Inner Cities, (Arabesque 6776), is a recording of piano music by Alvin Curran and John Adams, including Mr. Brubaker’s transcription of a portion of Adams’s opera, Nixon in China. The previous disc in Mr. Brubaker’s series for Arabesque, Glass Cage, featuring music by Philip Glass and John Cage, was named one of the best releases of the year by New Yorker Magazine. Hope Street Tunnel Blues, the third CD in the series, will be released during 2007.

Following his New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Musical America named Bruce Brubaker a Young Musician of the Year. His subsequent London debut at the Wigmore Hall led to his first broadcast concert on the BBC, an all-Brahms recital. Brubaker has premiered music by John Cage, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jonathan Lloyd, and performed Glass’s piano music in concerts and broadcasts throughout the world. Brubaker has also appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s, as part of the St. Louis Symphony’s Copland 2000 Festival, at Leipzig’s Gewandhaus, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Hollywood Bowl, at 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 was profiled by NBC’s “Today Show” in the US, and has appeared on RAI. He is featured in the recent documentary film about the Juilliard School, made for the “American Masters Series” in the US. As a member of Affiliate Artists Xerox Pianists program, he presented residencies and performed throughout the world.

Brubaker studied at the Juilliard School, where he was awarded the school’s highest distinction prize. He joined the faculty at Juilliard in 1995 and went on to become the first recipient of the school’s John Erskine Faculty Prize. At Juilliard, he has appeared in public conversations with Philip Glass, Milton Babbitt, and Meredith Monk. Brubaker has given master classes and forums at New England Conservatory of Music, Columbia University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His articles about music have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Piano Quarterly, Keyboard Classics, Chamber Music, and other periodicals. In 2004, he became a member of the faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory. He is now chair of the conservatory’s piano department.

(January 2007)