Monica Buckland is the new Musical Director of the Balmain Sinfonia, a symphony orchestra in Sydney, Australia.  Their first concert together – without audience, due to Covid-19 restrictions – took place on 26 September 2020.

The Women of the Year Lunch & Awards 2019 was held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Monday October 14th.
ITV reported on it.

Also in October 2019, Monica Buckland was appointed to the Board of Directors of the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC for the 2020–2022 period.   

The IAWM is an organisation dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music – performers, composers, educators etc. – all around the world.

Monica Buckland is a freelance conductor, teacher and coach.

Since 1 May 2019 she has been Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

New: As of February 2020, she is the new Musical Director of the Balmain Sinfonia in Sydney.

From 2016 to 2019 she was Musical Director of the New Tyneside Orchestra, UK.

She continues to teach at Durham University and the Palucca Hochschule, 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 TU Dresden and the Palucca University of Dance, where she has been part of the MA Choreography team since 2017.

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

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:



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