Praised by The Strad for her “surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound,” violinist Deborah Buck has built a rich and varied musical career as a chamber musician--including 17 years with the celebrated Lark Quartet, as well as a concertmaster, pedagogue, soloist, recording artist, and artistic director.
Highlights of recent performances and exciting projects include recitals with pianists Orli Shaham and Orion Weiss. Buck’s summer concerts have taken her to Telluride’s Chamber Music Festival (CO), Washington Friends of Music Summer Festival (CO), Sands Point: Four Seasons of Music (NYC) and Music oT the Hook Arts Music Festival (CO). Other notable news includes the honor of having received two commissions written for her: John Harbison’s DeBut for solo violin, and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata for violin and piano by Bruce Adolphe.
For seventeen years, Buck was a member of the critically acclaimed Lark Quartet (2002- 2019). The quartet was especially recognized for its extensive commissioning and boundary-pushing programming. They were one of the first quartets to oTer programs featuring string quartet plus percussion, clarinet, voice, or piano, and recorded works by American composers such as John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron J. Kernis, Daniel Bernard Romain (DBR), and Paul Moravec; many of which are included in their extensive discography found on Endeavor, Koch, Arabesque, and Bridge Record labels. Buck has also recorded for the motion picture and television industry, including featured violin solos in the re-mastered American Silent Film classic, The Scarlet Letter (Turner Classic Movies). Her national television debut came by way of a featured guest spot on the Family Channel’s It Takes Two, hosted by Dick Clark.
Buck made her Lincoln Center concerto debut in 1997 with the Little Orchestra Society of New York. As a recitalist, she has performed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago for WFMT; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and over the airways via “Sunday’s Live” on Los Angeles’s KKGO. Buck served as the tenured concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic from 2008-2013, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Opera Guild and St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra (L.A), and has just recently led the Phoenix, West Virginia, and Youngstown Symphony Orchestras as Guest Concertmaster. In 2022, Music Director, Michael Stern appointed Ms. Buck as Concertmaster of Orchestra Lumos (formerly Stamford Symphony).
Since 2014, Ms. Buck has held the positions of Head of Strings and Chamber Music and Assistant Professor of Violin at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. This year, Ms. Buck created a new student-run public chamber music series called, “Out & About!” that will culminate in two days of student chamber music group performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Buck has served as Co-Executive Director and concert series curator of the Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont since 2011. She served on the Kinhaven Senior Session violin faculty for twenty-two years.
A native of Los Angeles, Deborah Buck spent her primary years studying with Michael and Irina Tseitlin. She was a recipient of both a Starling scholarship and a Martin Kaltman Foundation scholarship while earning her Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Buck also holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Robert Lipsett and was awarded the Jascha Heifetz Violin Scholarship. Her many awards also include a Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Corwin Foundation Grant, a Leni Fe Bland Career Grant, Winner of the National Contemporary Record Society Competition.New Canaan, CT. Buck’s summer concerts have taken her to Telluride’s Chamber Music Festival (CO), Washington Friends of Music Summer Festival (CO), Sands Point: Four Seasons of Music (NYC) and Music off the Hook Arts Music Festival (CO). Other notable news includes the honor of having received two commissions: John Harbison’s DeBut for solo violin, and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata for violin and piano by Bruce Adolphe.

For seventeen years, Buck was a member of the critically acclaimed Lark Quartet (2002-2019). The quartet was especially recognized for its extensive commissioning and boundary-pushing programming. They were one of the first quartets to offer programs featuring string quartet plus percussion, clarinet, voice, or piano, and recorded works by American composers such as John Harbison, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron J. Kernis, Daniel Bernard Romain (DBR), and Paul Moravec; many of which are included in their extensive discography found on Endeavor, Koch, Arabesque, and Bridge Record labels. Buck has also recorded for the motion picture and television industry, including featured violin solos that helped breathe life back into the re-mastered American Silent Film classic, The Scarlet Letter (Turner Classic Movies). Her national television debut came by way of a featured guest spot on the Family Channel’s It Takes Two, hosted by Dick Clark.

Buck made her Lincoln Center concerto debut in 1997 with the Little Orchestra Society of New York. As a recitalist, she has performed at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.; the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago for WFMT; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; and over the airways via “Sunday’s Live” on Los Angeles’s KKGO. Buck served as the tenured concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic from 2008-2013, concertmaster of the Los Angeles Opera Guild and St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra (L.A), and has just recently led the Phoenix, West Virginia, and Youngstown Symphony Orchestras as Guest Concertmaster. In 2022, Music Director, Michael Stern appointed Ms. Buck as Concertmaster of Orchestra Lumos (formerly Stamford Symphony).

Since 2014, Ms. Buck has held the positions of Head of Strings and Chamber Music and Assistant Professor of Violin at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. This year, Ms. Buck created a new student-run public chamber music series called, “Out & About!” that will culminate in two days of student chamber music group performances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ms. Buck has served as Co-Executive Director and concert series curator of the Kinhaven Music School in Weston, Vermont since 2011. She served on the Kinhaven Senior Session violin faculty for twenty-two years.

A native of Los Angeles, Deborah Buck spent her primary years studying with Michael and Irina Tseitlin. She was a recipient of both a Starling scholarship and a Martin Kaltman Foundation scholarship while earning her Bachelor of Music degree at The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Buck also holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern California, where she studied with Robert Lipsett and was awarded the Jascha Heifetz Violin Scholarship. Her many awards also include a Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Corwin Foundation Grant, a Leni Fe Bland Career Grant, Winner of the National Contemporary Record Society Competition.