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Thomas Buckner, Baritone

For more than 40 years, baritone Thomas Buckner has dedicated himself to the world of new and improvised music. Buckner has collaborated with a host of new music composers including the late Robert Ashley, Noah Creshevsky, Tom Hamilton, Earl Howard, Matthias Kaul, Leroy Jenkins, Bun Ching Lam, Annea Lockwood, Roscoe Mitchell, Phill Niblock, Wadada Leo Smith, Chinary Ung, Christian Wolff and many others. He has made solo appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Harvard University, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Edinburgh Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, and the Biennale Festival of Venice, presenting a repertoire that includes more than 100 compositions, written for, or dedicated to him. Buckner is featured on over 40 recordings, including six of his own solo albums. His most recent recording Flowing Stream, a trio collaboration with bassist Joelle Leandre and flutist Nicolle Mitchell, is available from Leo Records. He also appears on the newly released Mutable Music recording of Roscoe Mitchells concert music entitled Not Yet. Also active as a concert producer, Buckner has for the past twenty-five years produced the acclaimed Interpretations series in New York City.