Jeremy Buckler, trombone, is from Dallas, Texas. Currently he is a Masters student at Rice University where he is studying with David Waters. He received his Bachelors of Music in Performance last spring at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with James DeSano. This past summer he attended the Aspen Music Festival where he studied with Per Brevig and worked with many well-known conductors including James Conlon, Michael Stern, and Leonard Slatkin. While at Oberlin he has performed with the Oberlin Orchestras throughout China, including Beijing and Shanghai. This past January, he performed with the Oberlin Orchestra in Carnegie Hall under the baton of Robert Spano. Most recently he was second trombone with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and was a finalist in the 2007 Lewis Van Haney Trombone Competition.