"Glass Etude" on YouTube "Brubaker recital proves eclectic, hypnotic, and timeless" -- Harlow Robinson's Boston Globe review of my Jordan Hall recital Bruce Brubaker hosts 4 weeks of "Hammered!" on Q2 "Onstage, a grand piano and an iPod" -- David Weininger's story with video by Dina Rudick "Bruce Brubaker on Breaking Down Boundaries" -- extensive audio interview at PittsburghNewMusicNet.com "Heavy on the Ivories" -- … [Read more...]
PianoMorphosis
January 27, 2008 By
Music is changing. Society's changing. Pianists, and piano music, and piano playing are changing too. That is Pianomorphosis. But we're not only reacting... … [Read more...]
Bruce Brubaker
January 27, 2008 By
I'm Bruce Brubaker -- not Bruce Wayne! And yet, while I chair the piano department at America's oldest institution of professional musical training, New England Conservatory in Boston, increasingly technology turns my professional piano playing life into a kind of "caped crusade." Recordings such the new American piano music CDs I make for Arabesque reach a lot of different listeners, and seem to break through some old divisions of high … [Read more...]
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