News - Monica Buckland

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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).

“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)

«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.

Live concert
Clara Schumann – Piano concerto op. 7
9th March 2018
Çukurova Devlet Senfoni Orkestrası
Adana, Turkey
Hande Dalkilic - piano
Monica Buckland - Conductor

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
14 December, 7:30 pm St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle	New Tyneside Orchestra Newcastle Cathedral Choir	Christmas Extravaganza: Bedrich Smetana – Dance of the Comedians from The Bartered Bride Peter Tchaikovsky – Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Sergei Prokofiev – Troika from Lieutenant Kijé J. Strauss II – Overture, Die Fledermaus and carols to sing along
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