Emerson leader has new job
OrchestrasThe Berkshire Bach Society has named an artistic director.
He’s Eugene Drucker, former first violin of the Emerson Quartet, which disbanded last year.
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The Emerson Quartet did not have a “first” or “second” violin. Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer alternated parts.
He was also recently appointed head of chamber music at Stony Brook University.
Gene Drucker is an intellectual and musical genius who has recorded the complete solo violin works of J. S. Bach. The BBS is in good hands.