William Buchman joined the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra in 1992 after two seasons with the Dallas Symphony. He was
appointed assistant principal bassoon in 1996 and has served as acting
principal on multiple occasions, including all overseas tours since 2007. In
2008, he performed and toured as guest principal bassoon with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic.
Buchman has played chamber music
with pianists Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Yefim Bronfman and
Emanuel Ax; performed and toured with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago
Pro Musica and Chicago Symphony Winds; and regularly plays with Music of the
Baroque. He first appeared as soloist with the CSO in 2002 and was a soloist at
the 1998 Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. He also has appeared at the
Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in Maryland, Grand Teton Music Festival in
Wyoming and Saint Barts Music Festival in the Caribbean. He was awarded first
prize in the 1990 Gillet Competition of the International Double Reed Society,
and he has performed at several IDRS conferences since that time.
A native of Canton, Ohio, William
Buchman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics magna cum laude from
Brown University in 1987. With the support of a DAAD fellowship, he continued
his physics studies the following year at the Universität Fridericiana
Karlsruhe in Germany. On returning to the United States, he studied bassoon
performance at the Yale University School of Music with Arthur Weisberg and at
the University of Southern California School of Music with Norman Herzberg.
A member of the DePaul University
School of Music faculty since 2008, William Buchman also coaches the bassoon
section of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and he has presented master classes
in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and North Carolina and in Brazil and
China.
He resides with his partner Lee
Lichamer in Chicago’s Ravenswood neighborhood.
September
2012
