Peter Bucknell

Peter Wentworth Bucknell (born 1980) is an Australian-born filmmaker residing in Manhattan in the United States.

Film

Known best for his films about classical music, Bucknell has contributed documentary work about the Australian Youth Orchestra and their involvement with American violinist Joshua Bell. He is known also for his underwater films.

Performing Arts

Peter Bucknell began in the performing arts as a classical musician. He performed the Australian premiere, broadcast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, of Chaconne for Viola and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass. He performed and recorded as solo violist 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).

As a member of Quatuor Danel (Danel Quartet), specialising in the string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, Bucknell has appeared at Wigmore Hall, at La Grange de Meslay in the Loire Valley (Tours), in many other European halls, and on Radio France. As a member of the Stradivari Sextet, Bucknell was loaned the "Mahler Stradivarius."[1]

He was a founding member of the Raw Fish Quartet performing at the George Crumb Festival in New York, concerts in Taiwan and La Jolla and at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, playing George Crumb's Black Angels[2] and Steve Reich's Different Trains. He was a member of the Munich Chamber Orchestra, he recorded with Concerto Köln, and performed with Musica Antiqua Köln.

Background

A documentary film maker, Peter Bucknell is known for his factual short films and environmental films shot underwater. Previously a classical viola player, Bucknell learnt violin using the Suzuki Method and went on to study with Russian pedagogue Nelli Shkolnikova. He won the Auckland, New Zealand International Viola Congress Competition and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award. His Quartet won the Interpretation Prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.[3]

He studied music in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts with Nathan Gutman; in Los Angeles, California with violist[4] Donald McInness; in Siena, Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Yuri Bashmet; and in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Moog, a student of Walter Trampler at the Juilliard School, the principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan.

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 professor[5] Mitchell Stern. Bucknell was for several years Assistant Professor of viola at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam.

Peter Bucknell is the son[6] of Tasmanian-born painter Toni Bucknell[7] of Melbourne, Australia. He is married to Israeli-born mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham.[8]

Discography

Recordings include two chamber music CDs on the classical music label, Musica Omnia, with the Atlantis Trio and the Atlantis Ensemble:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rice University concert program. "Italian Treasures: October 9, 2001". Houston Early Music.
  2. ↑ Andante: Everything Classical. "Crumb Festival, September 29, 2002, Raw Fish: Black Mass: Black Angels, Images I". Andante.com.
  3. ↑ Violinists Directory. "Peter Bucknell". Violinist.com.
  4. ↑ Allan M. Lee. "Donald McInnes Biography". The Viola Web Site.
  5. ↑ Sounds For All Seasons. "Professor Mitchell Stern". sunysb.edu. SUNY Stony Brook Faculty Pages.
  6. ↑ Toni Bucknell. "Toni Bucknell, artist". blogspot.com.
  7. ↑ Rinat Shaham. "Singin'rin: Opera life and beyond". blogspot.com.
  8. ↑ Musica Omnia, Inc. "The Atlantis Trio & Ensemble: Mendelssohn". MusicaOmnia.org.
  9. ↑ Musica Omnia, Inc. "The Atlantis Ensemble: Schumann and Schubert.". MusicaOmnia.org.

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