Pianist Bruce Brubaker is a model of the new musician, visionary virtuoso and artistic provocateur. His concerts are wide-ranging, from Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic to Philip Glass on the BBC. He has premiered works by Glass, Meredith Monk, Nico Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Oliver Lake, Simon Hanes, and John Cage. He made his New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and has been presented by the International Piano Festival at La Roque d’Anthéron, at Michigan’s Gilmore Festival, by the St. Louis Symphony at the Sheldon, at the Philharmonie de Paris, and at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art as opening-night performer in the museum’s acclaimed Diller Scofidio + Renfro building. He is a frequent performer at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge and at Folle Journée in Nantes. Brubaker trained at the Juilliard School, where he received the Edward Steuermann Prize, the school’s highest award, upon graduation. At Juilliard, where he taught for nine years, he originated an interdisciplinary performance course involving actors, dancers, and musicians. He has appeared in public conversations with Philip Glass, Milton Babbitt, and Meredith Monk. He gives prestigious master classes and forums, is widely published, and has curated numerous concert series and festivals. He presently chairs the piano department at New England Conservatory in Boston. He has been profiled on NBC’s Today show and his blog, “PianoMorphosis,” appears at ArtsJournal.com.
