Music on Mondays with Pianist Sara Davis Buechner
Venue: Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Organizations: Sara Davis Buechner, Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Monday, November 18, 2019
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:

Description:
The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts continues their Music on Mondays series with Pianist Sara Davis Buechner on Monday, November 18, 2019 at the Moss Arts Center.

Noted for her musical command, cosmopolitan artistry, and visionary independence, Sara Davis Buechner is one of the most original concert pianists of our time. Lauded for her “intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess” (New York Times), “thoughtful artistry in the full service of music” (Washington Post), and “astounding virtuosity” (Philippine Star), Japan’s InTune magazine sums up: “Buechner has no superior.”

In her twenties Ms. Buechner earned a bouquet of top prizes at the world’s premiere international piano competitions — Queen Elisabeth (Brussels), Leeds, Mozart (Salzburg), Beethoven (Vienna), and Sydney. She was a Bronze Medalist of the 1986 Tschaikowsky Competition in Moscow and the Gold Medalist of the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition.

Ms. Buechner has performed in every state and province of North America — as recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with top orchestras like the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra; and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl. She has toured throughout Latin and South America and Europe; and she enjoys a special following in Asia, where she has been a featured soloist with the Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic and Shanghai Philharmonic, among many others.

She has commissioned and premiered important contemporary scores by composers such as Michael Brown, John Corigliano, Ray Green, Dick Hyman, Vit?zslavá Kaprálová, Jared Miller, Joaquín Nin-Culmell, and Yukiko Nishimura. Ms. Buechner’s performance versatility extends to unique collaborations with film and dance (including tours with the Mark Morris Dance Group and Japanese kabuki-mime-mask dancer Yayoi Hirano).

As a proud transgender woman, Ms. Buechner also appears as a speaker and performer at important LGBTQ events, and has contributed interviews and articles about her own experience to numerous media outlets worldwide.

Sara is a dual American-Canadian citizen who makes her home in Philadelphia.

Links:

• http://saradavisbuechner.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/SaraDavisBuechner
• https://www.youtube.com/user/SaraDavisBuechner

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=allperformancesonsale.

This is a special Music on Mondays performance, co-presented by the School of Performing Arts and the Moss Arts Center.

For more information, visit: https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/index.php/events/view/sara-davis-buechner-piano or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt