 Sara
Davis Buechner was a prize winner in many of the world's most
prestigious international piano competitions: Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium, Leeds, Salzburg, Sydney, and Vienna. She was the Grand
Prizewinner of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition,
and the top American Prizewinner in the 1986 Tchaikowsky Competition in
Moscow.
With an active repertoire of over 85 piano concertos ranging from Bach
to Wuorinen, she continues to appear with America's most prominent
orchestra's: the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra,
Cleveland Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and
the National Symphony. She has played widely throughout Europe and Asia,
and with such foreign orchestras as the Japan Philharmonic, the City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Kuopio Philharmonic (Finland) and the
Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain). Sara was recently the
featured artist at the piano 2000 gala concerts in Washington DC with
the National Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, and made her recital debut
at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival.
Sara made her
Canadian Orchestral debut to rave reviews performing with The Montreal
Chamber Orchestra - Wanda Kaluzny conducting. Last season she performed
a concert featuring three concertos with the McGill Chamber Orchestra
-Boris Brott conducting. She also received rave reviews for her concerto
performance with the Calgary Philharmonic. This season Sara will be
performing with Bill Eddins and the Edmonton Symphony, Mario Bernardi
and Orchestra London Canada, Tania Miller and the Victoria Symphony and
is also excited to perform the Miklos Rozsa Piano Concerto for her first
time with Eugene Castillo and the Manila Philharmonic She is also
excited about her many solo performances scheduled throughout New York,
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Hawaii, Washington, Washington DC,
Oregon, Illinois, and Connecticut as well as concerts throughout Japan,
Singapore, and Korea.
Ms. Buechner's recording of solo works by Gershwin was selected as
'Record of the Month' in May 1994 by Stereophile magazine, her 1997
recording of the Bach-Busoni Goldberg Variations was profiled in the
Recordings View column of the NY Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section&
her recordings of film music concertos by Bernard Herrmann and Franz
Waxman won Germany's coveted Deutsche Schauplatten Preiss. Her 1999 Koch
CD of the complete piano music of Miklos Rozsa was nominated for best
classical release by GLAMA Awards. Recently Sara's CD featuring the
piano music of Stephen Foster was released under the ProPiano label, as
well as her CD featuring the music of Rudolf Friml which was released
under the Koch Label. Due for release soon will be a stunning CD
featuring the chamber music works of Rudolf Friml under the Koch Label.
Her solo CD featuring the piano works of Rudolf Friml has received
extraordinary reviews this year including features in the New York
Times, Chicago Tribune, Accent Magazine, Montreal's La Presse and the
Juilliard Journal among other places. It has also been the "Pick of the
Week" on various radio stations including on Washington DC's classical
music station WGMS Radio.
Ms. Buechner is a champion of young American composers and has given
premieres of solo, concerto and film-interactive works by Pierre
Charvet, Richard Danielpour, Dick Hyman, Kenneth Lampl, Henry Martin and
Paul Moravec. She recently gave both the Boston and NY premieres of
Larry Bells hour long cycle of Prelude and Fugues. Ms. Buechner is also
one of the only pianists to actively perform with silent movies, last
season being the 150 minute long restored score to Ben-Hur which was
presented at the Walter Reade Theatre by the Film Society of Lincoln
Center.
Ms. Buechner was a former faculty member at the Manhattan School of
Music in NYC and the faculty of New York University. She recently joined
the piano faculty at Unveristy of British Columbia in Vancouver. She has
also presented master classes at the Boston and Peabody Conservatories,
Indiana and Northwestern Universities, the Shandelee Festival, the Royal
Academy in London and throughout Japan and Korea. |
