PERFORMER
Oboist · Composer · Bay Area
Bruckmann is a member of performing ensembles including sfSound, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Quinteto Latino, Splinter Reeds, Opera Parallèle, and the Stockton Symphony. He is also active in many collaborative settings, as bandleader and sideman and in ad hoc free improvisational groupings.
He has premiered dozens of works as a soloist and within these ensembles. Some of the composers with whom he has worked most directly and intensively include Olivia Block, Linda Bouchard, Chris Brown, Christopher Burns, Eoin Callery, Gabriela Lena Frank, José-Luis Hurtado, Maija Hynninen, Matt Ingalls, Christopher Wendell Jones, Michelle Lou, Sky Macklay, Paula Matthusen, Lisa Mezzacappa, Hyo-shin Na, Amadeus Regucera, Matt Sandahl, Ken Ueno, Theresa Wong, Eric Wubbels and Pamela Z.
Some notable samples of his performances of “classical” repertoire:
GRAŻYNA BACEWICZ
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
ELLIOTT CARTER
GABRIELA LENA FRANK
HELEN GRIME
LOU HARRISON
PAQUITO D'RIVERA
W.A. MOZART
DU YUN