Dr. James R. Buckner

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1990‑present   HENDERSON STATE UNIVERSITY, Chair and Professor of Music, Arkadelphia, Arkansas

 Administer all aspects of Music Department, including 14 full-time and six adjunct faculty.

Instruct half load of trumpet majors and minors.  Recruited eighty-nine trumpet majors to date.  Extensive recruitment efforts for entire band program.  Ellis College Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching, 2001.  Instruct students in brass methods.  Conduct brass choir.  Coach student brass ensembles.  Named to “Who's Who in Collegiate Faculty,” 2006

 Director of Henderson State Band Camps, 2006 – 1,000 students in three weeks.  Educational Coordinator, Henderson State Band Camps, 1991-2005.  Present concerts by guest artists.  Present clinics for high school students.  Adjudicate high school solo contests.  Develop University library holdings of trumpet and horn texts.  Student teacher observation.  Academic advisor. 

 Webmaster of the Henderson Trumpet Page (http://www.hsu.edu/faculty/bucknej/index.html).  Wrote and compiled Trumpet Handbook and Brass Class Handbook.  Editor, Academic Forum.

 Chair:  Scholarship Committee, Faculty Research Committee, Ellis College Fine Arts Faculty Excellence Awards Committee, Woodwind Specialist Search Committee (2 times), Low Brass Search Committee, Director of Bands Search Committee.

 Member:  Faculty Senate, Credentials Committee, Student Assessment Committee, Ellis College Dean Search Committee, Music Department Chair Search Committee, Woodwind Specialist Search Committee.

1989‑1990       ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor of Trumpet, Normal, Illinois

1984‑1989       QUINCY UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor of Music, Quincy, Illinois

1980‑1984       WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, Instructor of Music, Cullowhee, North Carolina

 1977‑1980      NORTHEAST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY, Instructor of Trumpet, Kirksville, Missouri

 1976‑1977      WEST HIGH SCHOOL, Assistant Director of Bands, Waterloo, Iowa

EDUCATION

1989                Doctor of Music in Trumpet Performance, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
                        Dissertation:  Substitution of Trumpets in Orchestral Music:  Origins, Development, and  Contemporary Practices

1976                Master of Music in Trumpet Performance, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

 1975               Bachelor of Music in Music Education, Iowa State University (Ames, Iowa) 

MAJOR TEACHERS

Arnold Jacobs, solo tuba, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (deceased)
Vincent Cichowicz, Northwestern University, former second trumpet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (deceased)
Luther Didrickson, Northwestern University, first call trumpet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra (deceased)
Susan Slaughter, principal trumpet, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Clifford Lillya, University of Michigan (deceased)
Joseph Christensen, Iowa State University (deceased)
Arthur Swift, Iowa State University (retired)

GUEST CLINICS

 "Wind Instrument Breathing," Bryant Senior High School Band, Bryant, Arkansas, 1998
"Trumpet or Cornet?," National Catholic Bandmasters Association, 1987

PUBLICATIONS

Music Review, International Trumpet Guild Journal, May, 1998
"Hector Berlioz and the 'Vulgar' Cornet," Academic Forum, 1994
"The Cornet in Nineteenth‑Century England and Its Role in the Transition from Slide to Valve    Trumpets," Academic Forum, 1995

CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE

Henderson State University Low Brass Choir, 2003-2004
Henderson State University Brass Choir, 1990‑91, 1997-1998, 2004-2006
Henderson State University Senior Band Camp Brass Choir, 1991
Northeast Missouri State University Jazz Ensemble I, 1977‑79
West High School Concert Band, Jazz Band II, and Percussion Ensemble,1977

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Pi Kappa Lambda