Daniel Bukvich
Daniel Bukvich has been a member of the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music since 1978. Professor Bukvich holds the Master of Music degree in composition and arranging from the University of Idaho. Bukvich was born in 1954 in Butte, Montana, where he began composing while still in high school. His compositions and arrangements are performed world-wide by symphonic bands, wind ensembles, orchestral winds, choirs, jazz bands, symphony orchestras and marching bands. Bukvich resides in Moscow, Idaho, where he is Professor of Music at the Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho. He teaches percussion, freshman music theory and ear training, composition and jazz choirs. He performs regularly as a jazz drummer throughout the U.S. and Canada. He is a Nataional Arts Associate Member of Sigma Alpha Iota. He was selected as the commissioned composer for a premier work presented by the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma National I ntercollegiate Band in 1999. Some of his other works for band include Symphony No. 1 (In Memoriam: Dresden 1945); Electricity; Voodoo; Surprise, Pattern, Illusion (Prehistoric Cave Ceremonies for Flute and Winds); Dinosaur; Threnos; and Unusual Behavior in Ceremonies Involving Drums.

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