The Westport Public Library is proud to present violinist and author Eugene Drucker on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. in the McManus Room. This gifted musician, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, will speak about his new novel, The Savior, and will play excerpts from some of the pieces mentioned in it.
While studying at Columbia University and the Juilliard School, he served as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and made several solo appearances with it. After winning prizes at the Montreal Competition and the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, he made his New York debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner in 1976. While continuing his chamber music career with the Emerson String Quartet, he has played the solo violin repertoire with various orchestras including the American Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, etc.
The library has many recordings by the Emerson String Quartet as well as Mr. Drucker's own recording of the complete unaccompanied works of Johann Sebastian Bach.