Heather Buchman
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Heather Buchman | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Occupations | conductor and trombonist |
Heather Buchman is an American conductor and trombonist. She is Professor of Music at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, where she serves as director of the Hamilton College Orchestra and Chamber Music Program and Chair of the Department of Music. She has served as Education and Outreach Conductor for Symphoria, formerly the Syracuse Symphony. She has developed numerous innovative programs for Symphoria's Spark Series Archived 12 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, as well as for the orchestral and chamber programs at Hamilton College. She appears frequently as conductor and trombonist with the Society for New Music and other organizations.
Buchman was born in Canton, Ohio in 1965.[1] She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1983. In 1984 she was a winner of the New York Philharmonic Young Artists Concerto Competition. She received a bachelor's degree and performer's certificate in trombone from the Eastman School of Music in 1987. In 1988 she became Principal Trombone in the San Diego Symphony, and in 1989 was a prizewinner at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, West Germany.
Buchman completed an M.M in orchestral conducting in 1999 at the University of Michigan. She also studied conducting at the Juilliard School from 1999 to 2001. Buchman's principal conducting teachers were Otto Werner Mueller, Kenneth Kiesler, Leonid Korchmar, and Oleg Proskurnya Archived 14 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. She studied trombone with John Marcellus, Mark Lawrence, and Edward Zadrozny.
