Dr. Sara Davis Buechner Masterclass

Sara Davis Buechner (born 1959) is an American concert pianist and educator currently based in Newark, New Jersey.

Buechner was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1959. She studied music with Veronika Wolf Cohen, Reynaldo Reyes, and Mieczyslaw Münz, before graduating high school at Friends School of Baltimore in 1976. She attended the Juilliard School as a pupil of Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny and later worked with both Byron Janis and Paul Badura-Skoda. In her twenties, she won major prizes at the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competition (1983), the Leeds International Piano Competition (1984), the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition (bronze medal 1986), and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (1984, gold medal). Her 1984 debut at the 92nd Street Y in New York City received a glowing review in The New York Times, and she has had an active performance career since that time.

Buechner holds the German Diez…