Sara Davis Buechner performs with the Berkshire Symphony & for the American Pianist Association this week

This week audiences in MA and IN can hear Distinguished pianist Sara Davis Buechner

Don't miss her!

 

For more information on how to book Sara contact:  FeinerEnt@gmail.com/. www.saradavisbuechner.com. 914/725-0200

 

The Berkshire Symphony Presents Pianist Sara Davis Buechner on Friday, March 11th performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C major KV 503, with cadenzas by Sara, conducted by Ronald Feldman.

and On Sunday March 13th Sara will make her debut on the “Grand Encounter” series presented by the American Pianists Association, whose very first competition she won in 1980 when she was 21 years old. At that time the organization was called the Beethoven Foundation, and among its board members was comedian Victor Borge. Victor became a treasured friend and supporter, and sara always felt it a particularly special grace to her life that she came to know his famous smile, warm humor and marvelous pianism personally.

The recital will be held at the Indiana History Center at 3:30 p.m., and will feature works of Mozart, Gershwin, Federico Longás, and some of my own compositions.

 

Noted for her musical command, cosmopolitan artistry, and visionary

independence, Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert

pianists of our time. Lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-

encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), “thoughtful artistry in

the full service of music” (Washington Post), and “astounding

virtuosity” (Philippine Star), Japan’s InTune magazine sums up: “Buechner

has no superior.”

In her twenties Ms. Buechner earned a bouquet of top prizes at the world’s

premiere international piano competitions — Queen Elisabeth (Brussels),

Leeds, Mozart (Salzburg), Beethoven (Vienna), and Sydney. She was a

Bronze Medalist of the 1986 Tschaikowsky Competition in Moscow and the

Gold Medalist of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

Ms. Buechner has performed in every state and province of North America

— as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with top orchestras like the

New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia

Orchestra; and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and

the Hollywood Bowl. She has toured throughout Latin and South America

and Europe; and she enjoys a special following in Asia, where she has been

a featured soloist with the Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Philharmonic,

New Japan Philharmonic and Shanghai Philharmonic, among many others.

She has commissioned and premiered important contemporary scores by

composers such as Michael Brown, John Corigliano, Ray Green, Dick

Hyman, Vitezslavá Kaprálová, Jared Miller, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, and

Yukiko Nishimura. Ms. Buechner’s performance versatility extends to

unique collaborations with film and dance (including tours with the Mark

Morris Dance Group, and Japanese kabuki-mime-mask dancer Yayoi

Hirano).

Ms. Buechner has released numerous acclaimed recordings of rare piano

music by composers such as Rudolf Friml (“a revelation” — The New York

Times), Dana Suesse, Joseph Lamb, Joaquín Turina, Miklós Rózsa, and

Ferruccio Busoni (including the world première recording of the Bach-

Busoni “Goldberg” Variations). Stereophile magazine selected her Gershwin

CD as “Recording of the Month,” and her interpretation of Hollywood

Piano Concertos won Germany’s coveted Deutsches Schauplatten Preis. Most

recently her recorded traversal of the score to Carl Dreiser’s silent movie

classic Master of the House (1925) may be heard on Criterion Collection

DVD.

Sara Davis Buechner joined the faculty of Temple University’s Boyer

College of Music and Dance in 2016, after previously teaching at the

Manhattan School of Music, New York University and the University of

British Columbia. She has presented masterclasses and workshops at major

pedagogic venues worldwide, adjudicated important international piano

competitions, and is also a contributing editor for Dover Publications

International. In 2017 Ms. Buechner marked her 30th year as a dedicated

Yamaha Artist.

As a proud transgender woman, Ms. Buechner also appears as a speaker

and performer at important LGBTQ events, and has contributed interviews

and articles about her own experience to numerous media outlets

worldwide. Sara is a dual American-Canadian