Sara Davis Buechner
Sara Davis Buechner' [1] is an American concert pianist and educator, currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Career
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Buechner studied at the Juilliard School with the Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny, finishing with a doctorate in music from the Manhattan School of Music.[2]
Buechner has been on the piano faculty at Temple University since 2016, and had previously served on the faculty of the University of British Columbia from 2003-2016,[3] and was formerly a member of the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and New York University.[4]
Buechner is transgender, and underwent sex-change operation in 2002.[5] Buechner dislikes the term "transsexual", and is said to be "mildly peeved" about being referred to as such, stating that living as a woman was the only honest way to live life.[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 in several countries.[7]
Buechner is a Yamaha Artist, and has made several 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
- The first Beethoven Fellowship of the American Pianists Association in 1981
- Gold Medal at the 1984 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition
- Bronze Medal[2] in the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.[4]
References
- ↑ "Allmusic: David Buechner > overview", retrieved February 25, 2007.
- 1 2 Minderovic, Z. "Sara Davis Buechner Biography", retrieved March 15, 2007.
- ↑ "Sara Davis Buechner - About Sara", retrieved February 25, 2007.
- 1 2 "Sara Davis Buechner - US Pianist", retrieved February 25, 2007.
- 1 2 Sara Davis Buechner (February 4, 2013). "My Story: An Evolving Country Begins to Accept Sara, Once David". The New York Times.
- ↑ Alexander Varty, "Beyond the standards", Georgia Straight, August 2, 2007.
- ↑ "Sara Davis Buechner - Concerto Repertoire", retrieved February 25, 2007.
- ↑ "Queen Elisabeth music competition, David (Sarah Davis) Buechner", retrieved February 25, 2007.