Music, Theatre, Dance Faculty & Staff
Last Name
Buchner
First Name
Mark
Email
buchnema@gvsu.edu
Title
Double Bass, Adjunct Instructor
Website
Office Address
1215 PAC
About
Mark Buchner is a double bassist specializing in new chamber music and orchestral music. He resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he is a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony, is Professor of Double Bass at Grand Valley State University, and maintains a private teaching studio. Devoted to accurate and engaging interpretations, his performance season is split between world premieres of living composers and fresh looks at classic pieces.
Mark grew up in Orange County, California, where he attended Chapman University. He moved to Chicago in 2009 to attend Northwestern University, studying bass with Peter Lloyd while playing with groups including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Philharmonic, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He joined the Grand Rapids Symphony in 2014, moving there later that year. In 2018 Mark married fellow GRS musician Jenna Anderson and they adopted a loveable pit bull, Norby, shortly before that.
Mark is a also member of Dal Niente, a Chicago-based chamber music ensemble specializing in new music, joining the ensemble in 2010. His solo debut was in early 2015 in Chicago with a program that included rarely-heard works by Luciano Berio and Iannis Xenakis.