Program
Stephen Buck, piano - Professor, SUNY Purchase
Stephen Buck, second place winner at the 1998 Isabel Scionti Piano Solo Competition, is a Master of Musical Arts candidate at the Yale School of Music. He recently received his Master's in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan, where he was a student of Anton Nel. While at Michigan, he won the University 1995-96 Concerto Competition playing Samuel Barber's Piano Concerto. He was awarded the Stockwell Memorial Scholarship, and performed both in the Contemporary Directions concert series and the Composers' Forums. In Ann Arbor, he performed in the SpringFest chamber music series, and served on the faculty of the Orchard Lake School of Music. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, where he was a student of Ann Schein. Over past summers, Stephen has attended the Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall, Aspen, and Tanglewood Summer Festivals, where he studied with such teachers as Jerome Lowenthal, Marian Hahn, Randall Hodgekinson, Ann Schein, and Maria Clodes Jaguaribe. He has also performed in master classes for Christoph Eschenbach, Peter Serkin, Jerome Lowenthal, and Nelita True. In the summer of 1997 he performed with flutist Leone Buyse, former principal of the Boston Symphony, in Ann Arbor and at the National Flute Convention's 25th Anniversary gala concert in Chicago. An avid accompanist and chamber musician, Stephen has accompanied numerous vocal and instrumental recitals. In previous years he has performed at Caramoor both as a chamber musician and soloist. With the Trio Sortilege, he was a semifinalist in the 1996 and 1997 Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions. Stephen is also a founding member of AlpenKammerMusik, a chamber music festival for amateur chamber musicians in the Austrian Alps.
