Stephen Buck, pianist, is in demand as a performer, chamber musician, pedagogue and musical entrepreneur.  Mr. Buck made his Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut through Artists International in New York.  He is currently serving as chair of the piano department at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music.  Active throughout the United States and Europe, Mr. Buck received his doctoral degree from Yale University School of Music.
An avid chamber musician and collaborative pianist, Mr. Buck taught and performed for several summers at the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in southern Italy.  In 2006 he co-founded the AlpenKammerMusik Festival in Austria, an intensive 11-day course for musicians of all ages.  His interest in new music led him to perform with F.I.RE, a New-York based contemporary music ensemble, while his work with the piano quartet Ensemble Argos offers a chance to explore traditional repertoire.  Mr. Buck 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 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, performing Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.
Mr. Buck received a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, studying with Anton Nel, where he won Second Prize at the 1998 Isabel Scionti Competition, the university’s Concerto Competition with the Barber Piano Concerto, and received the Stockwell Memorial Scholarship.  He also served on the faculty of the Orchard Lake School of Music.  Mr. Buck graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 1995, where he studied with Ann Schein at Peabody Conservatory.
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