Michael
Bukhman,
pianist
www.michaelbukhman.com
Hailed
as “discerningly intense” (The Boston Globe), giving a “riveting
performance that engaged us both musically and intellectually” (The
Dayton City Paper), and praised for “great playing” (The Boston
Globe), pianist Michael Bukhman is becoming widely known as a top
collaborator, chamber musician, and solo artist. His 2013 performance
with violinist Itzhak Perlman in Sarasota, Florida, was lauded for
its “brilliant playing” and having “pushed the audience to the edge
of frenzy” (Herald-Tribune). In June of 2016 Bukhman performed a
duo recital with Grammy award-winning violist Kim Kashkashian to
great acclaim at the American Viola Society Festival in Oberlin,
OH. He has also collaborated with Nobuko Imai, Donald Weilerstein,
Dawn Upshaw, Sergiu Schwartz, Peter Frankl, Roger Tapping, Anthony
Marwood, and many others. Bukhman’s concert appearances have taken
him all across the United States, Israel, Canada, and Europe. He
has recently performed in several cities in China with his wife,
violist Xinyi Xu, and has given his Japan recital debut in Tokyo’s
Ginza Yamaha Hall. An award-winning pianist, Bukhman’s accolades
include: medalist in the 2009 Hilton Head International Piano Competition;
top-ranked winner of the 2005 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship; first-prize
winner at the 2006 Corpus Christi International Competition for
Piano and Strings; and laureate of the 2006 Gina Bachauer Competition
at the Juilliard School. Notable music festival concert appearances
include Yellow Barn Music Festival, The Perlman Music Program, and
the Ojai Music Festival. He has also performed on Boston’s charitable
Music For Food concert series with members of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. In addition to the standard repertoire, Bukhman has a
keen interest in showcasing the music of our time, performing and
premiering the solo piano and chamber music of such composers as
Jonathan Harvey, Osvaldo Golijov, Philippe Hersant, Arlene Sierra,
Judith Shatin, Tzvi Avni, and others.
Bukhman served as visiting assistant professor of music at Bard
College, where he founded Play/Chat@Bard, a concert series showcasing
young musicians in performance with informal conversation. These
popular concerts featured some of the most up-and-coming musicians
of our time with Bukhman at the piano, including the Attacca Quartet,
Metropolitan Opera soprano Rebecca Ringle, and violinist Tessa Lark.
He had previously taught at Vassar College, and has served as faculty
for the Young Artist Program at Yellow Barn Music Festival and the
Killington Music Festival. In the Spring of 2017 Bukhman was Guest
Artist in Residence at Oberlin Conservatory in Oberlin, OH. He was
also recently invited to present solo and chamber masterclasses
at Soochow University in Taipei, and previously taught, performed,
and presented masterclasses at Shenandoah University, Concordia
College, and Towson University.
Bukhman attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student
of Robert Shannon, where he became the first in that institution’s
history to graduate with Honors in Piano Performance. As part of
his Honors project, Bukhman recorded and self-produced the complete
24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich, performing ten of them in
one recital. He holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts
degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Robert
McDonald. Bukhman served on the staff and faculty of the New England
Conservatory in Boston, MA and is currently Assistant Professor
of Collaborative Piano and Chamber Music at Texas Christian University
in Fort Worth, TX. |