Peter Buckoke

Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander Technique and is Professor of double bass at The Royal College of Music (London). He has created the five Alexander course available to the RCM students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is known as a chamber musician playing double bass, as a founder member, with The Schubert Ensemble and other chamber groups by invitation. He writes for musical journals about 'bass playing and the Alexander Technique. His first book, The Alexander Technique for...See more

Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander Technique and is Professor of double bass at The Royal College of Music (London). He has created the five Alexander course available to the RCM students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is known as a chamber musician playing double bass, as a founder member, with The Schubert Ensemble and other chamber groups by invitation. He writes for musical journals about 'bass playing and the Alexander Technique. His first book, The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a collaboration with his wife Judith Kleinman, it is published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. In his spare time Peter looks after several colonies of bees. See less