Sara Davis Buechner

Sara Davis Buechner [1] is an American concert pianist and educator, currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Career

Buechner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where she studied with Veronika Wolf Cohen, Reynaldo Reyes and Mieczyslaw Münz. She attended the Juilliard School as a pupil of Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny and later worked with both Byron Janis and Paul Badura-Skoda. In her twenties she won major prizes at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition (1983), the Leeds International Piano Competition (1984), the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition (6th prize, Bronze Medal 1986) and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1984, Gold Medal). Her 1984 debut at the 92nd Street Y in New York City received a glowing review in the New York Times, and she has had an active performance career since that time.[2]

Buechner has been on the piano faculty at Temple University since 2016, and had previously served on the faculties of the University of British Columbia,[3] the Manhattan School of Music and New York University.[4] She was also an honorary Professor of the University of Shanghai from 2013 - 2016.

Buechner is transgender,[5] and has given talks and written about her experience as a role model for the GLBTQ community.[6] Buechner wrote about the transgender life experiences in a 2013 article in the New York Times.[5]

Buechner has performed with many different orchestras with an active repertoire of almost 100 concertos, and has given master classes on four continents.[7]

Buechner is a Yamaha Artist, and has made many recordings for the Disklavier player system.

Discography

  • Mujeres Españolas - Piano Works of Joaquin Turina (1992)
  • The American Flute (1993) (with flutist Robert Stallman)
  • Henry Martin: Preludes and Fugues (1990-92) (1994)
  • Mozart: Piano Sonatas (1995)
  • The Paradine Case - Hollywood Piano Concertos (1995)
  • Bach-Busoni "Goldberg" Variations (1997)
  • Miklos Rozsa: Complete Works For Solo Piano (1999)
  • Stephen Foster: Complete Piano Works (2002)
  • Rudolf Friml: Piano Music (2003)
  • Bygone Days - Music for Violin and Piano by Rudolf Friml (2006) (with violinist Stephanie Chase)
  • George Gershwin - Original Works and Transcriptions for Solo Piano (2005)
  • Nineteen Rags Of Joseph Lamb
  • Variations And Other Works of Brahms And Dvorak
  • Works of Busoni and Stravinsky
  • Gershwin: Second Rhapsody/Addinsell: "Warsaw" Concerto
  • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, op. 23

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Allmusic: David Buechner > overview", retrieved February 25, 2007.
  2. 1 2 Minderovic, Z. "Sara Davis Buechner Biography", retrieved March 15, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Sara Davis Buechner - About Sara", retrieved February 25, 2007.
  4. 1 2 "Sara Davis Buechner - US Pianist", retrieved February 25, 2007.
  5. 1 2 Sara Davis Buechner (February 4, 2013). "My Story: An Evolving Country Begins to Accept Sara, Once David". The New York Times.
  6. ↑ Alexander Varty, "Beyond the standards", Georgia Straight, August 2, 2007.
  7. ↑ "Sara Davis Buechner - Concerto Repertoire", retrieved February 25, 2007.
  8. ↑ "Queen Elisabeth music competition, David (Sarah Davis) Buechner", retrieved February 25, 2007.
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