Heather Buchman
Heather Buchman is an American conductor and trombonist, and an assistant professor of music at Hamilton College and conductor of both the Hamilton College orchestra and brass ensemble. She also oversees the chamber music program and teaches courses about 20th-century music and orchestration.[1] Buchman is currently the director of the Hamilton College Orchestra and Chamber Music program.[2] She is the founder of the Orchestra's annual Brainstorm! concert, which explores the relationships between music and other subjects. Outside of Hamilton, she has conducted the Syracuse Society for New Music[3] and guest conducted the U.S. Coast Guard brass section,[4] Symphoria (formerly the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra),[5] and Monarch Brass.
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Biography
Buchman was raised in Canton, Ohio.[6] She started playing trombone at age ten.[6] Buchman received her bachelor's degree and performer's certificate in trombone from Eastman School of Music in 1987.[7][5] Buchman has an M.M in orchestral conducting in 1999 from the University of Michigan.[7] She also studied conducting at the Juilliard School from 1999 to 2001.[7] Buchman has studied under Leonid Korchmar, Oleg Proskurnya, Murry Sidlin, Michael Jindo, and conducting under Otto Werner Mueller and Kenneth Kiesler.
Work
Buchman was principal trombonist in the San Diego Symphony[8] from 1988 to 1996. Her appointment received significant press for being one of the first female principal brass positions in a major orchestra.[6][8][9] In 1993, she won an Orchestra Recognition Award.[10] Her playing has been called "stunning in performance" by trombonist, Cathy Leach.[11] As a soloist, she has won prizes in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Germany, and the New York Philharmonic Young Artists Concerto Competition, and has commissioned and premiered several new works for trombone. Buchman received a Women Conductors Grant from the League of American Orchestras in 2008 to study conducting in St. Petersburg, Russia.[12] Rob Bridge, the president of the Society for New Music (SNM) has called Buchman a "vibrant acclaimed conductor, virtuoso trombonist, award-winning professor."[3] She is the founding member of the KAIROS Chamber Orchestra, which debuted in fall 2007 at Hamilton College's Wellin Hall, in which Buchman conducted Dvořák's Serenade for Strings and Copland's Appalachian Spring.
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