 Oil Portrait by Kay Lamoreux Buckner.
Nathan Buckner, piano (Professor) joined the U.N.K. music faculty in 1997. Buckner has appeared throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Asia, and Latin-America as a soloist and chamber musician. Recent performances include multi-recital tours of Taiwan and Mexico; recitals in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Belarus, and Slovenia; and two U.N.K. multi-recital series: "The Nine Mature Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert" (2007), and "The Ten Sonatas for Piano & Violin of Ludwig van Beethoven" with violinist Ting-Lan Chen (2009). Other American performances include solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center, as well as chamber performances with the DaCapo Chamber Players at Merkin Hall, Washington's Contemporary Music Forum at the Corcoran Gallery, and the Abbey Bach Festival in Mount Angel, Oregon. He has appeared summers as artist and teacher at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp: Michigan (2003-2006), Delmarva Piano Festival: Delaware (1992-2010), and Shandong University Summer Session: Weihai, China (2008). He serves as pianist for the U.N.K. Faculty Piano Trio. Buckner's editions of the piano works of nineteenth century American composer Philip Antony Corri are published by Kallisti Music Press of Philadelphia, and are reviewed in Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association; his article on the composer appears in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
A native of Eugene, Oregon, Mr. Buckner holds a B.M. from The Juilliard School, an M.M. from Indiana University and a D.M.A. from University of Maryland. He studied piano with Edward Auer, Shoshana Cohen, Olegna Fuschi, Thomas Schumacher, and Beveridge Webster; and early keyboard practice with Albert Fuller. At U.N.K. he teaches applied piano, piano literature, and core curricula. His piano students have gone on to successfully pursue graduate and undergraduate piano performance degrees as scholarship/fellowship students at Indiana University, University of Maryland, UMKC Conservatory, University of New Mexico, Ohio University, and SUNY Purchase Conservatory; his studio has produced MTNA Young Artist Piano Competition state winners, as well as a national finalist.
 email: bucknern@unk.edu
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