Music, history, good fiction, politics, ultimate frisbee, movies, eating, and the occasional guilt-inspired trip to the gym,
Music
To play? Anything that vaguely fits the label "art music."
To listen to? Anything. Barring country and Broadway.
Movies
To Live. It's an amazing movie about how life goes on, in the face of really awful trials and tribulations.
I also enjoy watching things blow up.
Once I was a sensitive guy who could sit through chick flicks, but either they became dumb, or I did. Don't tell me which.
Television
Daily Show, Colbert Report, BBC-America, What Not To Wear (watched over lunch).
Books
Currently reading a biography of Bach. Just finished one about Alexander Hamilton. I appear to like biographies.
About me:
Stephen Buck, pianist, recently made his Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut through Artists International in New York. Currently serving on the faculties of the Conservatory of Music at SUNY Purchase and the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, Mr. Buck is an active performer in the United States and Europe, and was recently awarded his doctoral degree from Yale University.
Recent engagements have included a performance with saxophonist Tim McAllister at the Austrian Cultural Forum through the Minimum Security Composers Collective, a performance of Steve Reich's Sextet with the So Percussion Group, four-hand recitals and a performance of Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos with pianist and wife Tanya Bannister and the Westchester Philharmonic, vocal collaboration with soprano Heather Buck, and a lecture on the commedia dell'arte in piano repertoire at the Casa Italiana of NYU.
Along with colleagues Trey Lee, Roland Glassl, Claudia Ajmone-Marsan, Guy Eshed, and wife Tanya Bannister, Steve is co-founder of the AlpenKammerMusik Festival. This festival offers amateurs a unique experience in which they perform in ensembles that include professional musicians of the highest caliber.
An avid chamber musician and collaborative pianist, Steve has taught and performed for several summers at the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in southern Italy. He has studied at many prestigious summer music festivals, including Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, and Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, Maine.
A firm believer in the value of new music, Steve has performed works of George Crumb, Steve Reich, and Alvin Singleton for the composers, as well as many works by his own contemporaries, including Marcus Maroney, Sebastián Zubieta, Roshanne Etezady, and others.
Steve moved back to New York City after teaching piano and music history at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities. Prior to moving to South Carolina, he completed a Teaching Fellowship at Yale University, where he earned his Master of Musical Arts in 2001 studying with Peter Frankl. While at Yale, he won the 2001 Woolsey hall Concerto Competition, performing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand.
Steve received a Master of Music degree in 1998 from the university of Michigan, studying with Anton Nel. As a student at Michigan, he won Second Prize at the 1998 Isabel Scionti Competition, won the university's Concerto Competition, playing Barber's Piano Concerto,and received the Stockwell Memorial Scholarship. He also served on the faculty of the Orchard Lake School of Music. Steve graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, where he studied with Ann Schein at Peabody Conservatory.
Who I'd like to meet: People who are inspiring, funny, and interested in the world around them.
hey steve! how have you been? i'm trying to save money up to come back to italy this year- i hear lots of ithaca kids are returning! i miss bonefro and the acmf gang...
