Peter Bucknell

Peter Wentworth Bucknell (born 1967) is an Australian-born classical violist and filmmaker [cite web |url= http://www.turnherefilmmakers.com/filmmakers/Pete_Bucknell/ |title= Peter Bucknell at TurnHere Filmmakers |author= Peter Bucknell |format= html |work= TurnHereFilmmakers.com ] residing in Manhattan in the United States.

Performance

Peter Bucknell has been a soloist with Apollo's Fire, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Les Concerts du Monde, Los Angeles Musica Viva, and the Geminiani Chamber Orchestra (named for Francesco Geminiani). Bucknell performed the Australian premiere, broadcast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, of "Chaconne for Viola and Orchestra" by Michael Colgrass.

As a member of the award-winning Quatuor Danel (Danel Quartet), specialising in the string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, Bucknell has performed at Wigmore Hall, at La Grange de Meslay in the Loire Valley (Tours), in many other European halls, and on Radio France. During a tour with the Stradivari Sextet, Bucknell played the "Mahler Stradivarius." [cite web |url= http://www.houstonearlymusic.org/hemarchive/archive/2001/rebel.htm |title= Italian Treasures: October 9 2001 concert program, Rice University. |author= Houston Early Music, Houston, Texas |format= html |work= HoustonEarlyMusic.org ]

Peter Bucknell has performed with the Raw Fish quartet at the George Crumb Festival in New York, in concerts in Taiwan and La Jolla and at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, playing George Crumb's Black Angels [cite web |url= http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19062 |title= Crumb Festival, September 29 2002, Raw Fish: Black Mass: Black Angels, Images I |author= Andante: Everything Classical |format= html |work= Andante.com ] and Steve Reich's Different Trains. He is a founding member of the New York Harp Trio.

Background

In 1992, Bucknell (then aged twenty-five) won the Auckland, New Zealand International Viola Congress Competition and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award. In 1996, one of his Quartets won the Interpretation Prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. [cite web |url= http://www.violinist.com/directory/bio.cfm?member=petiepoo77 |title= Peter Bucknell |author= Violinists Directory |format= html |work= Violinist.com ]

He studied in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts with Nathan Gutman and Marco van Pagee; in Los Angeles, California with world-famous violist and teacher [cite web |url= http://www.viola.com/teachers/mcinnes.html |title= Donald McInnes Biography |author= Allan M. Lee |format= html |work= The Viola Web Site ] Donald McInness; in Siena, Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Yuri Bashmet; and in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Moog, [Rainer Moog on French Wikipédia.] a student of Walter Trampler at the Juilliard School, the principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan and one of the few violists with a successful career as a soloist. [cite web |url= http://www.cewm.org/aboutartist.html |title= Rainer Moog |author= Close Encounters With Music |format= html |work= Artist Biographies, cewm.org ]

Bucknell holds a Bachelor of Economics and Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he studied with the highly respected violinist and professor [cite web |url= http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/stern |title= Professor Mitchell Stern |author= Sounds For All Seasons |format= html |work= SUNY Stony Brook Faculty Pages |work= sunysb.edu ] Mitchell Stern. Bucknell was for several years Assistant Professor of viola at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. [cite web |url= http://members.aol.com/petiepoo77/Technique.html |title= Viola Technique |author= Dr. Peter Bucknell |format= html |work= aol.com ]

Peter Bucknell is the son [cite web |url= http://tonibucknell.blogspot.com/ |title= Toni Bucknell, artist |author= Toni Bucknell |format= html |work= blogspot.com ] of Tasmanian-born painter [cite web |url= http://www.redgallery.com.au/2005Invites/2005Show07.htm |title= The 2 π r Artists |author= Red Gallery Contemporary Art Space |format= html |work= redgallery.com] Toni Bucknell of Melbourne, Australia. He is married to Israeli-born mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham. [cite web |url= http://rinatsha2005.blogspot.com/ |title= Singin'rin: Opera life and beyond |author= Rinat Shaham |format= html |work= blogspot.com ]

Discography

Recent releases include two chamber music CDs on the classical music label, Musica Omnia, with the Atlantis Trio and the Atlantis Ensemble:
* Felix Mendelssohn's Piano trio No. 1, Op.49 and Piano sextet, Op. 110 [cite web |url= http://www.musicaomnia.org/mendelssohn.asp |title= The Atlantis Trio & Ensemble: Mendelssohn |author= Musica Omnia, Inc |format= html |work= MusicaOmnia.org]
* Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet Op. 44, Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet and song "Die Forelle." [cite web |url= http://www.musicaomnia.org/artist-atlantis_trio.asp |title= The Atlantis Ensemble: Schumann and Schubert. |author= Musica Omnia, Inc |format= html |work= MusicaOmnia.org] (Eighth release in "The Romantics" series.)

ee also

* Early music
* Baroque music
* Historically informed performance

References

External links

* [http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/profiles/bucknell.html Peter Bucknell, Melbourne University Alumni Profile]
* [http://www.newyorkharptrio.com/bio.php?bioid=3 Peter Bucknell - New York Harp Trio]
* [http://www2.meslay.com/Apage2.htm History of la Grange de Meslay]
* [http://www.americanaustralian.org/attachments/wysiwyg/15271/NY%20Harp%20Trio%20Bio.pdf Dame Joan Sutherland Award] Article by the American Australian Association.
* [http://www.musicaomnia.org/ Musica Omnia]
* [http://www.jcmf.or.jp/competition/index_e.htm Osaka International Chamber Music Competition]