BIO

Brian Buch (b. 1984) received his Doctorate in Music Composition from Boston University and his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Composition with an emphasis in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Brian is an associate professor of composition at the Berklee College of Music, and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New England Conservatory School of Music. He also privately teaches composition, music theory, ear-training, and classical and jazz piano with students receiving awards in national and international competition. 

As a composer, Brian writes for all genres of classical music. He has studied with Alla Cohen - his primary mentor, Sam Headrick, Richard Cornell, Don Freund, and Sven-David Sandström. His works have been performed and recorded throughout the world.

Many of Brian's compositions have received national and international recognition, including a first place and two second place prizes from the MTNA Young Artist Composition Competitions, two Honorable Mentions from the International Robert Helps Composition Competitions  and one from the Second International Lepo Sumera Composition Competition in Tallinn, Estonia, a finalist prize in the 2007 Queen Elisabeth Composition Competition in Brussels, a finalist in the 4th International Haifa Composers Composition Competition in Haifa, Israel, a recipient of the 2009/2010 Wainwright Prize, a winner of the Boston University Soloists Composition Competition, recipient of numerous ASCAP Plus awards, and a finalist award in the Second International Competition for Young Composers named after Nicolay Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory. Brian has collaborated and received commissions from leading contemporary soloists and chamber music ensembles including the Talea Ensemble, Daedalus Quartet, JACK Quartet, ALEA III, RUSQuartet, James Baker of the New York Ballet, violinist Yevgeny Kutik, and members of the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestras.

His music has been released by record labels MSR Classics, Centaur Records, Marquis Classics, and ABLAZE Records and broadcast on radio stations throughout the United States and the world. He has released four albums of original music – Shifting Spheres (chamber orchestra works performed by the Talea Ensemble), From the River Flow the Stars (string quartets performed by the Daedalus Quartet), Poems to Sing at Night (solo piano works performed by the composer), and Stone of Traveling Winds (live performances of chamber works).