David Drucker

I was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, and spent most of my childhood in Baltimore, Maryland. My parents were both musicians, and I took after them. I was a student at The University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music, and received a Bachelor of Music degree from there in 1982. I also attended The Walden School, a summer program for young composers, in Dublin, New Hampshire, and was a Fellowship Student at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood in 1983. I then went to Cambridge University, where I received a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Music Composition in 1984. I'm now a Doctoral candidate at the University of British Columbia, where I've studied with Keith Hamel, Jennifer Butler and Dorothy Chang.

I've written several pieces of chamber music, piano music, a song cycle, orchestral works including a tone poem called Lucé Veneziana (Venetian Light), a large work for 2 pianos and percussion ensemble called Martellare (Italian for ‘Struck’), song cycles and Auxesis for chamber ensemble and fixed media.

I've linked to recordings of several works from the button above, including the aforementioned Auxesis, performed by the University of British Columbia Contemporary Players. Other pieces are the Piano Toccata, Song Without Words, Capriccio for Five Trumpets, and Barcarolle for Solo Harp.

My wife and I emigrated to Vancouver, BC in 2005, and have since become Canadian citizens.