August 9-10
Michael Buckwalter began playing the horn at the age of twelve in Vallejo, California. His musical education includes studies at the San Francisco Conservatory and Northwestern University as well as private work with Dale Clevenger of the Chicago Symphony, Norman Schweikert, David Krehbiel and John Cerminaro.
Mr. Buckwalter has served as associate principal horn of the Nashville Symphony, co-principal of the RAI Torino Symphony (Turin, Italy), and solo alto horn of the Jack Daniel’s Silver Cornet Band. In Chicago, he is solo horn and a founding member of Ars Viva!, and principal horn of the Lake Forest Symphony, the Key West Symphony and the Woodstock Mozart Festival.
A member of the Northwest Indiana Symphony, the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and the Chicago jazz ensemble, Mr. Buckwalter has also performed horn and Wagner tuba with the Indianapolis Symphony. As an active freelancer, he plays with various theaters, industrial shows, symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles and ballets, (including the Joffrey), with opera companies as well as specialty ensembles including the Chicagoland Pops and Too Hot to Handel.
Michael Buckwalter teaches privately at the Music Institute of Chicago and the Lake Forest Symphony Music School.