News - Monica Buckland

News

Monica Buckland is a freelance conductor, teacher and coach.

From January 2016 she is the Musical Director of the New Tyneside Orchestra

In 2017 she will be part of the MA Choreography team at the Palucca University of Dance, Dresden.

In November 2015, Monica Buckland was elected an «Associate of Newnham College, Cambridge».

2008–2014 she was Artistic Director of the Universitätsorchester Dresden (Germany). She also lectured at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, Dresden and the TU Dresden.

2004–2006 she was Director of the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion (Switzerland).

“It’s really fantastic how you have worked on this piece with the orchestra!” says the Concertmaster of the Dresden Philharmonic of the performance of Berg’s violin concerto on 5 February 2012.

A film of Monica Buckland rehearsing was the central part of an exhibition in Leipzig, and was part of the film festival «Identities 2015» in Vienna:

Marion Porten
DER RÜCKEN DER DIRIGENTIN
Filmfestival «Identities 2015» in Vienna on Friday 12 June 2015, 18:00

Concerts, events and press review (Click on flyers for details)

Live concert
Camille Saint-Saëns - cello concerto nr. 1
29th January 2012 at the Lukaskirche Dresden
Kammerphilharmonie der Technischen Universität Dresden
Friedrich Thiele - Cello
Monica Buckland - Conductor

Live concert
Benjamin Britten - Four Sea Interludes, nos. 3 and 4
Universitätsorchester Dresden
Peterskirche, Görlitz, 27 June 2009
Monica Buckland - Conductor

Upcoming Projects

Date and place	Performers	Programme
21 October 2017 Newnham College, Cambridge	Cambridge University students	Conducting masterclass
22 October 2017, 11:00 St Mary’s Church, Great Eversden	Choir of St Mary’s	William Byrd – Mass for four voices
18 November 2017, 7:30 pm St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle	New Tyneside Orchestra	Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man Aaron Copland – Lincoln Portrait (speaker Chi Onwurah) Adolphus Hailstork – Spirituals / Fanfare on Amazing Grace Duke Ellington – Three Black Kings William Grant Still – Symphony no. 1 “Afro-American”
3 December 2017, 3:00 pm Newcastle City Hall	New Tyneside Orchestra Newcastle Hospitals Choir And many more	Christmas concert for CLIC Sargent
22 April 2018, 3:00 pm Gala Theatre, Durham	Orchestra North East	Emilie Mayer - Faust-Ouvertüre S.S. Rachmaninov - Rhapsodie über ein Thema von Paganini (Solist Murray McLachlan) Antonín Dvořák - Sinfonie Nr. 6 in D op. 60
24 March 2018, 7:30 Kings Hall, Newcastle University	New Tyneside Orchestra	Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Vorspiel I Arthur Honegger – Symphony no. 3 «Liturgique» Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 5 «Reformation»
20 May 2018, 7:30 pm St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle 27 May 2018, 7:30 pm Kirche Oberstrass, Zürich	ars cantata zürich New Tyneside Orchestra	Antonín Dvořák – The Spectre’s Bride, op. 69
16 June 2018, 7:30 pmSt Mary’s Church, Kemptown, Brighton	Crossing Borders Festival	Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Symphony op. 9 Patricia Morehead – The Handmaid’s Tale
15 July 2018 St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle 10:00 Eucharist 16:00 Evensong	The Quire	Programme tbd