Graham Buckland

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Graham Buckland (born January 27, 1951 in Weymouth , Dorset , England ) is a British conductor and composer .

Life

Buckland was born the son of a farmer and attended Hardye's School in Dorchester . In 1970 he entered George Hurst's conducting class for the first time at Canford Summer School. Hurst remained his mentor until 1987.

From 1970 he studied composition / musicology / piano at Corpus Christi College Cambridge and spent a year at the London Opera Center. In 1974 he won a scholarship from the British Council for an in-depth study of the operas of Janacek with František Jílek in Brno ( Brno , then Czechoslovakia ).

He stayed for three years and combined his studies with his first engagements as a solo coach at the National Theater in Prague and as Kapellmeister at the State Theater Ústí-nad-Labem (Aussig). Further theater stations in Nuremberg , Hanover and Oldenburg followed. He became chief conductor in Hildesheim and in 1991, on the recommendation of Jílek, in Brno. He is a guest conductor u. a. Performed in Brussels, Glasgow, Boise (USA), Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Hanover, Essen, Ulm and Hildesheim.

In 1995 he was appointed director of the Regensburg University Orchestra , where he worked until 2016. He has been the university music director there since 2003 .

In Regensburg he founded additional institutions such as the university chamber orchestra , the chamber choir and the chamber opera , as well as a baroque orchestra and numerous smaller ensembles.

In 2001 he founded the Kallmünz festival with a focus on contemporary music , which in 2010 presented the first festival entitled überBücken in cooperation with the city and the University of Regensburg .

In 2006 he was awarded the Pro Arte Regensburg University Foundation's cultural prize.

From 1997 to 2012 Buckland taught orchestral conducting at the University for Catholic Church Music and Music Education in Regensburg . He is also active as a composer and editor, mainly at Bärenreiter-Verlag .

He is married to the painter Andrea Buckland and has four children.

Works (selection)

Compositions

  • "Sol" for percussion and orchestra (WP 1991 Axel Fries and Oldenburg State Orchestra)
  • "Prometheus", chamber opera (productions 1995 in Český Krumlov and 1997 in Regensburg)
  • "Don Gil", chamber opera based on Tirso de Molina (excerpts premiered 2012 in Hildesheim)
  • "Rilke Pictures", for solo clarinet (Festival Kallmünz and Niedermünsterkirche Regensburg, 2001)
  • "Latin Mass" for 2 soloists, children's choir and small orchestra (WP Festival Kallmünz, 2002)
  • 8 original songs in Christmas a cappella, Bärenreiter (2001)
  • "Twenty Tiny Fingers", for piano duo, 2nd version for orchestra (WP Regensburg 2002)
  • 55 original organ preludes in Hallelujah, Bärenreiter (2002)
  • "Threnody", for string orchestra (Premiere Schierling 2005)
  • "Chanticleer", for 4 trumpets, timpani and string orchestra (premiere Regensburg 2006, version for large orch. 2007)
  • "Mass in C", for soprano solo, male choir, percussion and organ (WP Reinhausen, 2006)
  • "The Bumps", solo concert for marimba and string orchestra (WP Wörth 2009)
  • "Graham's Anatomy", chamber opera, (WP Kallmünz 2010)
  • "Three Transitions", for clarinet quintet (WP Pilsen 2010)
  • "CAD", Concertino for harpsichord and string orchestra (WP Regensburg 2011)
  • "Guter Hope", for string orchestra, WP Regensburg (2011)

Arrangements

  • Bartok, Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythms (from Microcosm) for strings, 2006
  • Brahms, Hungarian Dances 2 & 4 for symphony orchestra, 2006
  • Byrd, Browning, Fantasia à 6, Pavan & Galliard, The Bells for strings, 2005
  • Debussy, 1st Arabesque, Golliwog's Cake-Walk, Clair de lune, Petit Nègre for symphony orchestra, 2009
  • Gershwin, Three Preludes for clarinet and strings, 2012
  • Gershwin, Lullaby for strings, 2006
  • Janáček, On an Overgrown Path for clarinet and strings, Suite I 2011, Suite II 2005
  • Pavel Haas, Suita op.17 for oboe and strings, 2011
  • Mendelssohn, Veni domine, O beata, Prelude & Fugue for symphony orchestra, 2009
  • Schubert, Die Schöne Müllerin for symphony orchestra, 2005
  • Trad., Christmas carols, chorales and spirituals for choirs - s. Publications

Publications

  • "Christmas a cappella" (ed). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2001, ISMN M-006-50534-0
  • "Hallelujah" (ed). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2002, ISBN 979-0-006-52068-8
  • "20 Tiny Fingers". Bosse, Kassel 2002, ISMN M-2011-0912-1
  • "Spirituals a cappella" (ed). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2011, ISMN 979-0-006-54066-2
  • "Christmas for female voices" (ed). Bärenreiter, Kassel 2011, ISMN 979-0-006-53871-3

CDs

  • Suk, Dvořák, serenades for strings, Chamber Orchestra of the University of Regensburg, Spektral 2007
  • Brahms, The Four Symphonies, live recording by the Symphony Orchestra of the University of Regensburg, 2011

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Buckland, Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Weymouth (Dorset) , England