Dr. Karen Buckland

Piano, Piano Pedagogy, Piano Literature, Music History, Piano Ensemble
Belk Auditorium, room 103
Office Phone: 833-8467
E-mail: kbuck@presby.edu

KAREN WISSER BUCKLAND is Associate Professor of Music and the Director of Keyboard Studies at Presbyterian College. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from Mansfield University, and earned a Master of Music degree and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Pedagogy from the University of South Carolina. Her teachers include William Goode, Raymond Dudley, John Kenneth Adams, and Max Camp.

Dr. Buckland has been recognized as an educator in the 2004-2005 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, in the 2006 Who’s Who in America, in the 2007 Who’s Who in American Women, and in the upcoming 2008 Who’s Who in America. She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the South Carolina Music Teachers Association, the Music Educators National Conference, and the South Carolina Music Educators Association.

Dr. Buckland is active as a performer, an adjudicator, and a guest lecturer throughout the Southeast. She is co-founder of Ludlamshohle, a chamber ensemble dedicated to nineteenth-century music. Dr. Buckland is also the organist at First Presbyterian Church in Clinton, SC.