About

Arnold comes from a family of eminent British musicians. His early piano studies, from the age of four, were with his father. In the course of a multi-faceted career, Mr. Draper has given solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Britain and has performed for BBC Radio/TV and British Commercial Television. He has performed concertos with various orchestras, including the Okanagan Symphony in Canada and has accompanied many distinguished British and European instrumentalists and singers including a concert with one thousand Welsh male voices at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

Mr. Draper was a teaching and performing member of the music faculty at Cardiff University, Wales from 1974 to 1989. Since making Kelowna his permanent home, Mr. Draper has quickly established himself as an accompanist, teacher and adjudicator. In recent years, he has enjoyed working on several occasions with Trio Accord (Vancouver), the Borealis Quartet, the Okanagan Symphony and Chamber Music Kelowna.  In 2005 he received the Scorpion Award for Classical Artist of the Year, and in 2014 he received the Okanagan Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.