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  • Eileen Buck

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    Eileen Buck

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    Pianist EILEEN BUCK has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist in North America and Europe.  She has won several competitions, including taking First Prize at the Josef Hofmann Piano Competition in 1996. She has appeared as soloist with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, Etherridge Chamber Orchestra, Collegium Westchester Orchestra, and the Mannes Orchestra.  Ms. Buck is a frequent chamber music collaborator with other instrumentalists, including cellist Wendy Warner, with whom she recorded Paul Hindemith’s complete works for cello and piano for Bridge Records and Popper and Piatigorsky’s works for cello and piano for Cedille Records, to universally high critical acclaim. Her latest album is: Steal Away: Hymn Arrangements for Cello and Piano with cellist Soo Bae.  She has also performed with members from the Guarneri, Brentano and Borromeo String Quartets, the New York Philharmonic, MET Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra, among others.  Ms. Buck received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music, where her teachers were Eleanor and Vladimir Sokoloff and Edward Aldwell, respectively.  She also studied with Carl Schachter at the City University of New York Graduate Center, and Maria Curcio.  She studied chamber music with Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle, Julius Levine and Robert McDonald.  Ms. Buck has taught piano at Vassar College and chamber music at Queens College.  Currently, she serves on the faculty at the Mannes School of Music Preparatory Division, and coaches chamber music for the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program.  She is the artistic director for the Summer Chamber Music Intensive in New York City, faculty at the Interharmony International Music Festival in Acqui Terme, Italy, and teaches at the Mannes Summer Chamber Intensive.

     

     


    Current Courses

    Chamber Ensemble
    RAPR 0601, Fall 2024

    Lesson 1 hour
    RAML 0300, Fall 2024

    Lesson 1/2 hour
    RAML 0350, Fall 2024

    Lesson 3/4 hour
    RAML 0325, Fall 2024

    Preparatory Instruction
    RAML 0001, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Chamber Ensemble
    RAPR 0601, Spring 2025

    Lesson 1 hour
    RAML 0300, Spring 2025

    Lesson 1/2 hour
    RAML 0350, Spring 2025

    Lesson 3/4 hour
    RAML 0325, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Lesson 1 hour
    RAML 0300, Spring 2024

    Lesson 1/2 hour
    RAML 0350, Spring 2024

    Lesson 3/4 hour
    RAML 0325, Spring 2024

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