Eugene Drucker is a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet and an active soloist. He has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Austin, Hartford, Richmond, Toledo, and the Rhineland-Palatinate as well as with the New Mexico Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra and the 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 in 1976 as a Concert Artists Guild winner, after winning 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 for Biddulph Recordings. His novel, The Savior, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2007.