Bid on two private one-hour piano lessons with master teacher and performing artist Arno Drucker.

About Arno Drucker:

Arno Drucker has had a varied and distinctive musical career as a piano soloist, chamber music and orchestral performer, teacher, and scholar.

A native of Philadelphia, his debut performance was with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 13. While attending the Eastman School of Music, where he received his Bachelor and Master’s degrees, he performed with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, playing the Hanson Piano Concerto, with the composer conducting. He was a scholarship student at the Music Academy of the West. As a Fulbright scholar he studied at the Akademie in Vienna and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. During U.S. Army Service he appeared as soloist in twenty-one performances in Germany and the Benelux countries with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra.

He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree, studying at the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University with Leon Fleisher. He has been a soloist with the Baltimore, National, Chatauqua, New Haven, and Augusta Symphony Orchestras, and has presented solo recitals in various U.S. cities.

As a chamber music performer he was the pianist of the American Arts Trio, in residence at West Virginia University, performing concert tours of Germany and Mexico, and television programs for WQED (Pittsburgh). The trio premiered compositions during their New York Carnegie Recital Hall concerts and performed concert tours of the United States. He also performed with the Tokyo String Quartet.

Dr. Drucker is the founding Artistic Director of Festival Chamber Players. With members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra he directed and performed eleven years of summer chamber music concerts in Baltimore. As an accompanist he has performed recitals with Benita Valente, soprano, and cellists Stephen Kates and Leslie Parnas, and numerous Master classes and recitals with his wife, the soprano Ruth Drucker, in Indonesia, Austria, Canada, Germany and throughout the U.S.

He has been a faculty member of West Virginia University, Westminster Choir College, Essex Community College and the Peabody Conservatory, a recording artist for Orion Records, Principal Pianist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for over twenty years, and the author of “American Piano Trios: A Resource Guide,” published by Scarecrow Press.