Graham Buckland studied in Cambridge, London, Brno and Prague before becoming a repetiteur and musical assistant at the National Theatre in Prague in 1975. He spent a further 20 years as opera conductor in Ústí-nad-Labem, Nuremberg, Hanover and Oldenburg, becoming principal conductor in Hildesheim and Brno. He has appeared as guest conductor in several European countries and in the USA and was a regular guest with the Prague Symphony and Siegerland Orchestras as well as in the State Operas of Prague and Hanover. He is still a guest conductor in his former theatre in Hildesheim. In 1995 Buckland took over Regensburg University Orchestra, where he enlarged the repertoire and the concert activity quite considerably. Guest appearances followed in neighbouring cities as well as abroad. In 2004 he founded the University Chamber Orchestra, which made its first recording of the String Serenades of Suk and Dvořák in 2006. In 2003 he was nominated University Music Director and in 2006 he was awarded the cultural prize Pro Arte of the university’s cultural foundation. Buckland is also a composer and arranger. Two masses have been performed in Kallmünz and Regensburg; the chamber opera Prometheus was performed in Český Krumlov and Regensburg, Graham’s Anatomy in Kallmünz, Contrariety in Regensburg and excerpts from Don Gil in Hildesheim. Christmas a cappella, Christmas for Female Voices, Spirituals a cappella and Halleluja have been published by Bärenreiter, songs and piano music for children by Bosse.
