David Drucker was born in 1960 in Morgantown, West Virginia. After his family’s move to Baltimore, Maryland, he attended the Peabody Preparatory and the Walden School, the summer music program for music composition in New Hampshire. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Joel Hoffman and the late Jonathan Kramer. He was a fellowship student at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he worked with Gunther Schuller. He then studied with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge University, where in 1983, he received the first Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Composition granted by that institution. After a hiatus from music and work in technology, he resumed his studies entering the Doctoral program at the University of British Columbia, where he has studied with Keith Hamel, Jennifer Butler and Dorothy Chang.

He has written chamber music including a recent Viola Sonata, piano music (including a just-completed set of pieces entitled Concert Etudes), 2 song cycles, choral music, Seven Haiku and Luce Veneziana for Orchestra and Martellare a 5 movement work for Two Pianos and Percussion Ensemble.

Research Interests: I’m fascinated by the potential to analyze (and perhaps inspire)  music through the discipline of classical rhetoric. Many composers in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries were schooled in this (it was part of a standard educational curriculum called the Trivium which included Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric).

Current Research: Working on a presentation and paper regarding my piece, Auxesis for the Revue musicale OICRM, a publication of the ACTOR Project, which is dedicated to the Analysis, Creation and Teaching of Orchestration.