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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).
Monica Buckland mit Orchester

“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.

  
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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
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New Tyneside Orchestra  
«Trusting the music within you» - Monica Buckland at TEDxNewnham
Music is within everyone, and we show it in everything we do. Monica Buckland shows that your physical presence can be translated into music, regardless of how «musical» you think you are.		 tedx
Live concert
Clara Schumann – Piano concerto op. 7
9th March 2018
Çukurova Devlet Senfoni Orkestrası
Adana, Turkey
Hande Dalkilic - piano
Monica Buckland - Conductor		 schumann

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  
 

17 November 2018, 7:30 pm
Kings Hall, Newcastle University

 New Tyneside Orchestra

Carl Nielsen – Overture, An imaginary voyage to the Faroes  
Jean Sibelius – En saga, op. 9
Einojuhani Rautavaara  – Cantus Arcticus. D.D. Shostakovich – Symphony no. 9

 
 

27 January 2019, 7:30 pm
Gosforth Civic Theatre

Brundibár Festival Ensemble

 Albert Moeschinger – Miracles de l’enfance
(soloist: Mojca Vedernjak)		  
  15 March 2019
Durham University		   Conducting masterclass  
 

23 March 2019, 7:30 pm
Kings Hall, Newcastle University

 New Tyneside Orchestra

Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture op. 81                                   
Clara Schumann – Piano concerto in a minor  op. 7                      
(Soloist: Rose McLachlan)
Robert Schumann – Symphony no. 2 op. 16          

 
 

29 June 2019, 7:30 pm
St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle

 New Tyneside Orchestra

Ethel Smyth – Overture to The Wreckers and Prelude to Act II    
(On the cliffs of Cornwall)
Edward Elgar – Sea Pictures            (Soloist: Mojca Vedernjak)
Benjamin Britten – Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes