Concerto Repertoire
Sara Davis Buechner’s concerto repertory is the widest of any major pianist appearing before the public today. In concert, she has performed over 100 different works for piano and orchestra.
Among the major American orchestras with which she has performed are the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic and New Orleans Philharmonic.
In Canada, she has been soloist with the Toronto Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, McGill Chamber Orchestra, Montreal Chamber Orchestra and Orchestra London.
Outside North America, Ms. Buechner has performed concerti with the BBC Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kuopio Philharmonic (Finland), Hiroshima Symphony, Japan Philharmonic, Antwerp Philharmonic (Belgium), Orquestra de Castilla y Leon (Spain), Slovak Philharmonic, Jihočeská komorní filharmonie České Budějovice (Czech Republic), the Moscow Radio Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia).
Some of the conductors with whom Ms. Buechner has collaborated are Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Mario Bernardi, Max Bragado-Darman, Boris Brott, Sylvan Cambreling, Michael Christie, Sergio Comissiona, Edo de Waart, Edward Downes, Sixten Ehrling, Ivan Fischer, David Gilbert, Neil Gittleman, Kristen Jarvi, Zdenek Košler, Andrew Litton, George Manahan, John Mauceri, Jorge Mester, Daniel Meyer, David Alan Miller, Tania Miller, Kent Nagano, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Georges Octors, Sakari Oramo, Gerard Schwartz, Joseph Silverstein, Vasily Sinyisky, Leonard Slatkin, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Alain Trudel, Hugh Wolff, Gerhardt Zimmerman and David Zinman.
Below is a complete list of Ms. Buechner's active repertoire of Concertos and other works for piano and orchestra.
BAROQUE and CLASSICAL
| Bach - Busoni | Concerto in D minor |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Complete (5) Piano Concertos |
| Choral Fantasy | |
| Triple Concerto | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | Concerto in D major |
| Concerto in G major | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Complete (18) Piano Concertos |
| many with original cadenzas by Sara Davis Buechner | |
| Two Concert Rondos KV 382 and 386 | |
| Concertos for Two and Three Pianos and Orchestra KV 242 and 365 |
EARLY ROMANTIC
| Felix Mendelssohn | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Rondo brillante | |
| Capriccio brillante | |
| Serenade and Allegro giocoso | |
| Schubert-Liszt | "Wanderer" Fantasy |
| Carl Maria von Weber | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Konzertstuck op. 79 |
ROMANTIC
| Johannes Brahms | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Frederic Chopin | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Fantasy on Polish National Airs op. 13 | |
| Krakowiak op. 14 | |
| Antonin Dvorak | Piano Concerto in G minor |
| Edvard Grieg | Piano Concerto in A minor |
| Franz Liszt | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Hungarian Fantasy | |
| Totentanz | |
| Liszt - Busoni | Spanish Rhapsody |
| Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor |
| Clara Wieck Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor |
| Richard Strauss | Burleske |
| Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky | Piano Concerto no. 1 |
VIRTUOSO ROMANTIC SHOWPIECES of the PIANO’S GOLDEN AGE
| Hermann Goetz | Piano Concerto in B flat major |
| Adolf von Henselt | Piano Concerto in F minor |
| Henry Litolff | Scherzo, from Concerto Symphonique no. 4 |
| Josef Marx | Romantic Piano Concerto |
| Moritz Moszkowskii | Piano Concerto in E major |
| Ignaz Jan Paderewski | Piano Concerto in A major |
| Fantasy on Polish Themes | |
| Anton Rubinstein | Piano Concerto no. 4 in D minor |
FRENCH CLASSICS
| Cécile Chaminade | Concertpiece |
| Gabriel Fauré | Ballade |
| Fantaisie | |
| Cesar Franck | Variations Symphoniques |
| Les Djinns | |
| Vincent d'Indy | Symphony on a French Mountain Air |
| Francis Poulenc | Piano Concerto |
| Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra | |
| Maurice Ravel | Concerto in G |
| Camille Saint-Säens | Piano Concerto no. 2 in G minor |
| Germaine Tailleferre | Ballade |
TWENTIETH -CENTURY RUSSIAN CLASSICS
| Sergei Prokofieff | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 3 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Piano Concerto no. 1 |
| Igor Stravinsky | Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments |
| Peter Ilyitch Tschaikowsky | Piano Concerto no. 1 |
AMERICAN CLASSICS
| Leonard Bernstein | Symphony no. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" |
| Marc Blitzstein | Piano Concerto (1931) |
| John Alden Carpenter | Concertino |
| Aaron Copland | Piano Concerto (1926) |
| John Corigliano | Piano Concerto (1968) |
| George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue |
| Second Rhapsody | |
| Concerto in F | |
| "I Got Rhythm" Variations | |
| Louis Moreau Gottschalk | Grand Tarentella |
| The Union (Fantasy on Patriotic Themes) | |
| Edward MacDowell | Piano Concertos nos. 1 and 2 |
CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECES
| Bela Bartok | Complete (3) Piano Concertos |
| Ferruccio Busoni | Concerto for Piano, Orchestra and Male Chorus |
| Manuel de Falla | Noches en las Jardinias de Espana |
| Paul Hindemith | The Four Temperaments |
| Leos Janacek | Capriccio for Piano Left-Hand and Wind Instruments |
| Concertino | |
| Vitezslava Kapralova | Partita for Piano and String Orchestra |
| North American premiere performance | |
| Constant Lambert | "The Rio Grande" for Piano, Orchestra and Chorus |
| Dinu Lipatti | Concertino in Classic Style |
| Three Roumanian Dances | |
| Bohuslav Martinu | Piano Concertos nos. 2 and 4 |
| Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra | |
| Einojuhani Rautavaara | Piano Concerto no. 1 |
| Joaquin Turina | Rapsodica Sinfonica |
| Akio Yashiro | Piano Concerto (1967) |
MOTION PICTURE CONCERTOS
| Richard Addinsell | Warsaw Concerto |
| from the motion picture "Dangerous Moonlight" | |
| Bernard Herrmann | Concerto Macabre |
| from the motion picture "Hangover Square" | |
| Miklos Rozsa | Spellbound Concerto |
| from the motion picture "Spellbound" | |
| Piano Concerto (1968) | |
| Franz Waxman | Paradine Rhapsody |
| from the motion picture "The Paradine Case" |
ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS: CHAMBER MUSIC
Available for booking:
Duo with Stephanie Chase, violin
Duo with Jeffrey Solow, cello
Piano Trio with Stephanie Chase, violin and Jeffrey Solow, cello
Gervaise dePeyer (clarinet)
André Emilianoff (cello)
Elmar Oliveira (violin)
Roelof Oostwoud (tenor)
Leonard Rose (cello)
Robert Stallman (flute)
Erika Sunnegardh (soprano)
Alexander String Quartet
Borealis String Quartet
Rossetti String Quartet
ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS: SILENT FILMS (accompanied on piano)
“Easy Street” (1918) - with Charlie Chaplin [20m.]
“Ben Hur” (1926) - MGM epic with Ramon Novarro [150m.]
“Master of the House” (1926) - dir. Carl Dreyer [80m.]
“Koko’s Earth Control” (1927) - Max Fleischer cartoon [10m.]
ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS: DANCE
Mark Morris and the Mark Morris Dance Group
Neta Pulvermacher Dance Company
Nori Nke Aka, Nigerian performance artist
Yayoi Hirano, Japanese mask mime dancer
ORCHESTRAS - USA
Albany Symphony
Baltimore Symphony
Buffalo Philharmonic
Cleveland Orchestra
Colorado Symphony
Dayton Philharmonic
Detroit Symphony
Florida Orchestra
Hawai’i Symphony
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
Indianapolis Symphony
Minnesota Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra
New Jersey Symphony
New Orleans Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic
Oakland Symphony
Philadelphia Orchestra
Rochester Philharmonic
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Seattle Symphony
Utah Symphony
ORCHESTRAS - CANADA
Calgary Philharmonic
CBC Radio Orchestra
Edmonton Symphony
Montréal Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra London
Symphony Nova Scotia
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Victoria Symphony
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
ORCHESTRAS - LATIN & SOUTH AMERICA
Orquesta de Viña del Mar (Chile)
Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (Mexico)
Orquesta Filarmonica de Montevideo (Uruguay)
Orquesta Junvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata (Mexico)
Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
ORCHESTRAS - ASIA
Hiroshima Symphony (Japan)
New Japan Philharmonic (Japan)
New Zealand Philharmonic (New Zealand)
Philippine Philharmonic (Philippines)
Qingdao Philharmonic (China)
Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Australia)
ORCHESTRAS - EUROPE
Antwerp Philharmonic (Belgium)
BBC Philharmonic (U.K.)
České-Budějovice Philharmonic (Czech Republic)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (U.K.)
Kuopio Philharmonic (Finland)
Moscow State Radio Orchestra (Russia)
Orchestre de ORTF (Belgium)
Orquesta de Castilla y León (Spain)
Slovak Philharmonic (Slovak Republic)
CONDUCTORS (selective list)
Kazuyoshi Akıyama
Mario Bernardi
Stephen Bishop-Kovacevich
Max Bragado-Darman
Boris Brott
Sylvan Cambreling
Michael Christie
Sergiù Comissiona
Edo deWaart
Andreas Delfs
Edward Downes
Sixten Ehrling
JoAnn Falletta
Ivan Fischer
Michael Francis
Bernard Gueller
Kristen Järvi
Kenneth Kiesler
Zdeněk Košler
Jahja Ling
Andrew Litton
John Mauceri
Nicholas McGegan
Jorge Mester
Alexander Mickelthwate
David Alan Miller
Tania Miller
Michael Morgan
Kent Nagano
Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Sakari Oramo
Edwin Outwater
Andra de la Parra
Nicolas Rauss
Iván López Reynoso
Stefan Sanderling
Gunther Schuller
Gerard Schwarz
Joseph Silverstein
Vasily Sinyaisky
Leonard Slatkin
Lawrence Leighton Smith
Bramwell Tovey
Alain Trudel
Maximiano Valdès
Newton Wayland
Gustavo Rivero Weber
Hugh Wolff
Victor Yampolsky
Gerhardt Zimmermann
David Zinman
MAJOR CONCERT VENUES: NORTH AMERICA
Aloha Piano Festival (Honolulu)
Ambassador Auditorium (Pasadena CA)
Bargemusic (Brooklyn N.Y.)
Berkeley Piano Club (Berkeley CA)
Brandeis University (Waltham MA)
Carnegie Hall (New York)
Chicago Symphony Hall (Chicago)
Festival Blanco y Negro (Mexico City)
Hart House (Toronto)
Merkin Hall (New York)
National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.)
Portland Piano Festival (Portland)
Ravinia Festival (Chicago)
Sala Nezahualcóyotl (Mexico City)
Town Hall (Seattle)
Weill Hall (New York)
MAJOR CONCERT VENUES: EUROPE
Leeds Town Hall (U.K.)
Rudolfinum (Prague)
University of Evora (Lisbon)
MAJOR CONCERT VENUES: ASIA
Alti Hall (Kyoto, Japan)
Cultural Center of the Philippines (Manila, Philippines)
Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand)
Matsukata Hall (Kobe, Japan)
Munetsugu Hall (Nagoya, Japan)
Payap University (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
Phoenix Hall (Osaka, Japan)
Shanghai Piano Festival (Shanghai, China)
Takatsuki City Hall (Takatsuki, Japan)
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore)