Peter Bucknell
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Peter Bucknell, a Viola player, held the position of Assistant Professor at the Crane School of Music (State University of New York at Potsdam).[1]
He can be heard performing with The New York Harp Trio. In 1992, Peter won the Auckland International Viola Congress Competition and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award.[citation needed]
He studied with Donald McInnes in Los Angeles, with Rainer Moog in Cologne, Germany, and with Yuri Bashmet in Siena, Italy at the Chigiana Academy.[citation needed]
He has been a soloist with Apollo's Fire, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Les Concerts du Monde, Los Angeles Musica Viva, and Melbourne's Geminiani Chamber Orchestra (broadcasting live on ABC the Australian Premiere of Michael Colgrass' "Chaconne").[citation needed]
He has given recitals in the United States, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia.[citation needed]
As a member of the award-winning Quatour Danel, Peter has played at Wigmore Hall, Grange de Meslay, Radio France and in many other European halls, specializing in the quartets of Shostakovich.[citation needed] He toured with the Stradivari Sextet, where he played the 'Mahler Stradivarius' Another of his Quartets won the Interpretation Prize in the Osaka Competition in 1996.[citation needed]
Most recent releases include : two chambermusic CDs for the label [1] with the Atlantis Ensemble (Jaap Schroeder, Enid Sutherland and Penelope Crawford) of the Trout Quintet, Schumann's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's Piano Sextet.
RAW FISH a dynamic young quartet has been playing in Festivals on both America's East and West coasts.[citation needed] Most recently at the George Crumb Festival in New York, concerts in Taiwan, La Jolla and the chambermusic Festival in Santa Fe, playing "Black Angels", and Steve Reich's "Different Trains".[citation needed]
Peter has studied with Donald McInnes, Marco van Pagee, Nathan Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, and Rainer Moog, and holds a Doctorate from the State University of New York where he studied with Mitch Stern.[citation needed] Peter also has a Bachelor of Economics and Commerce from Melbourne University.
[edit] References
- ^ Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. SUNY Potsdam 2004-2006 Undergraduate Catalog. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
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