EducationBS Brown University
Courses Taught
Applied Bassoon
About
William Buchman joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1992, after two
seasons with the Dallas Symphony. In 1996, he was appointed to the
position of assistant principal bassoon. He served as acting principal
between November 1996 and August 1997 and for the CSO's 2003-04 season.
Bill
has performed and toured with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago
Pro Musica and the Chicago Symphony Winds, has played chamber music with
pianists Daniel Barenboim and Christoph Eschenbach, and appears
regularly with Music of the Baroque. He made his debut as a soloist
with the Chicago Symphony in February 2002, and was a soloist at the
1998 Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Bill has appeared at the
Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in Maryland, the Grand Teton Music
Festival in Wyoming and the St. Barts Music Festival in the Caribbean.
He was awarded first prize in the 1990 Gillet Competition of the
International Double Reed Society, and has performed at several IDRS
conferences since then.
Bill is from Canton, Ohio, and earned a
Bachelor of Science in physics magna cum laude with Honors from Brown
University in 1987. With the support of a DAAD Fellowship, he continued
his physics studies the following year at the Universitt Fridericiana
Karlsruhe in Germany. Upon returning to the United States, Bill studied
bassoon performance at the Yale University School of Music with Arthur
Weisberg and at the University of Southern California School of Music
with Norman Herzberg, before winning a position in Dallas, where he was
also on the faculty of the Meadows School at Southern Methodist
University.
A member of the DePaul University School of Music
faculty since 1997, Bill also coaches the bassoon section of the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago and has presented master classes in Ohio, Michigan,
Minnesota, North Carolina, Indiana, Brazil and China. He lives with his
partner Lee Lichamer in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood and is an
avid bridge player and bread baker.
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