Sara Davis Buechner to perform at Virginia Techs Moss Arts Center

Virginia Tech and the Moss Arts Center is excited to present a solo concert by the Distinguished pianist Sara Davis Buechner on Monday, November 18.

Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre in the Moss Arts Center

Noted for her musical command, cosmopolitan artistry, and visionary independence, Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert pianists of our time. After earning a bouquet of international competition prizes in her early career, Buechner’s contributions have spanned performances, commissioning new works, and recordings. Her solo performance will include works by Mozart, Brahms, Taku, and Gershwin.

 

To find out more about booking Sara Buechner contact FeinerEnt@gmail.com

914/725-0200 . or go to www.saradavisbuechner.com

 

 

 

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