Bruce Brubaker

In performances from the Hollywood Bowl to New York's David Geffen Hall, and from Paris to Hong Kong, pianist Bruce Brubaker is a visionary virtuoso and an artistic provocateur. With more than 150 million streams on Spotify, Brubaker reaches a large and diverse audience. He has performed Mozart with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Philip Glass on the BBC, and was profiled on NBC's "Today" show. His blog, "PianoMorphosis," appears at ArtsJournal.com.

Brubaker has been presented by Carnegie Hall and major festivals and orchestras across the U.S. and Europe, and was the opening-night performer for the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston's Diller Scofidio + Renfro building.

Brubaker's recordings include Nico Muhly's album "Drones" (Bedroom Community); "Piano Songs," a recording of Meredith Monk's piano music made with pianist Ursula Oppens, for ECM; and, for InFiné, "Glass Piano," a recording of solo piano music by Philip Glass. With electronic artist Max Cooper he recorded "Glassforms," combining Glass' piano works with realtime processing and improvisation, commissioned by the Philharmonie de Paris. His albums for Arabesque include "Time Curve," "Hope Street Tunnel Blues" (featuring Brubaker's transcription of part of Einstein on the Beach), "Inner Cities" (including his transcription of part of John Adams' opera Nixon in China), and "glass cage," named one of the year's best releases by the New Yorker.

Brubaker has premiered works by Glass, Monk, Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage, and John Cage, among others. Following his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall, he received a solo artist grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His London debut at Wigmore Hall led to his first BBC broadcast, an all-Brahms recital. He appears in the PBS "American Masters" documentary about the Juilliard School and in Sandra Trostel's 2015 film Everybody's Cage.

Brubaker created "B-A-C-H," a six-concert New York series on the music of J.S. Bach and his successors, and "Piano Century," in which 100 pianists performed 101 20th-century works across 11 concerts. He is founder and artistic director of SummerMusic, a chamber music festival in his native Iowa.

Brubaker trained at the Juilliard School, where he received the school's highest honor, the Edward Steuermann Prize, and later taught for nine years. He is now on the piano faculty and serves as curator of piano programming at the New England Conservatory in Boston.