User:Peterbucknell

=Peter Bucknell=

Peter Bucknell, viola player, teacher and video editor.

He can be heard performing with The New York Harp Trio. In 1992, Peter won the Auckland International Viola Congress Competition and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Award.

He studied with Donald McInnes in Los Angeles, with Rainer Moog in Cologne, Germany, and with Yuri Bashmet in Siena, Italy at the Chigiana Academy.

Dr. Bucknell held the position of Viola Professor at the Crane School of music (State University of New York at Potsdam)

He has been a soloist with Apollo's Fire, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Les Concerts du Monde, Los Angeles Musica Viva, and Melbourne's Geminiani Chamber Orchestra (broadcasting live on ABC the Australian Premiere of Michael Colgrass' "Chaconne").

He has given recitals in the United States, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. As a member of the award-winning Quatour Danel, Peter has played at  Wigmore Hall, Grange de Meslay, Radio France and in many other European halls, specializing in the quartets of Shostakovich. He toured with the Stradivari Sextet, where he played the 'Mahler Stradivarius' Another of his Quartets won the Interpretation Prize in the Osaka Competition in 1996.

In 2006, releases will include : two chambermusic CDs for the label Musica Omnia with the Atlantis Ensemble (Jaap Schroeder, Enid Sutherland and Penelope Crawford) of the Trout Quintet, Schumann's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's Piano Sextet.

RAW FISH a dynamic young quartet has been playing in Festivals on both America's East and West coasts. Most recently at the George Crumb Festival in New York, concerts in Taiwan, La Jolla and the chambermusic Festival in Santa Fe, playing "Black Angels", and Steve Reich's "Different Trains" Peter has studied with Donald McInnes, Marco van Pagee, Nathan Gutman, Yuri Bashmet, and Rainer Moog, and holds a Doctorate from the State University of New York where he studied with Mitchell Stern. Peter also has a Bachelor of Economics and Commerce from Melbourne University.