On Sunday, February 21st at 4:00 pm in the Lenox Library, the Distinguished Lecture Series will continue with a reading and performance by the renowned violinist Eugene Drucker.
Drucker is a founding member of the internationally famous Emerson String Quartet as well as an active soloist. He has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Austin, Hartford, Richmond, Toledo, Memphis, Omaha, Anchorage and the Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and Aspen Chamber Symphony.
A graduate of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Oscar Shumsky, Mr. 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 works of Bach, recently reissued by Parnassus Records, and the complete sonatas and duos of Bartok. His novel, The Savior, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2007 and has recently appeared in paperback.
Mr. Drucker will perform the two final movements of the Partitia in D for Solo Violin by Johann Sebastian Bach. He will also read from his novel The Savior which has been called “spellbinding,” “a moving, honest exploration of conscience,” and“an instant literary classic.”
Admission to this lecture is FREE and open to all; reservations are not required. Lectures are held in the Sedgwick Reading Room of the Lenox Library at 18 Main Street, Lenox, MA.
The Distinguished Lecture Series has been organized and is hosted by
Prof. Jeremy Yudkin of Lenox.
All programs in the Distinguished Lecture Series are FREE and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the following sponsors:
Mary Nash Consulting
The Barefoot Gardener Company, LLC
For further information, contact:
Lisa Berkel at 413-637-2630 or lberkel@lenoxlib.org