Community Artist

Dr. Wayne F.A. Buckner

Wayne Bucknor is the associate professor of piano at Oakwood University, a position he has held since 1988. www.oakwood.edu He also has served as the Minister of Music for Madsion Mission Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madison, Alabama. www.madisonmission.net

Bucknor was born in Queens, New York, and grew up in Orlando, Florida. Raised in a musically talented family, he was the first to seriously pursue formal study in music, starting with piano lessons at the age of 6. He continued his music study in Orlando with Drucilla Engel at the Iris Engel Daniel School of Music.

Bucknor graduated with both a B.A. in piano performance and B.S. in compter science from Oakwood University. He completed his Master in Music Education at Alabama A&M University in 1998 and recently completed his Doctorate in Music Arts in piano performance and pedagogy at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

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He is also a song writer, producer, and arranger for sololists and groups, and including Virtue (I Must Tell Jesus, Angels Watching Over Me, Till You Believe(piano), the Madison Mission Mass Choir(Great And Marvelous, Open Praise, Lord We Have Come, etc) Darwin Hobbs, Dynamic Praise (God Restores, O Come) Ann McCrary, Duawne Starling, Joyce & Robert Pressley, Annointed Praise and others who have included his works for them on their recordings. He admits songwriting is his passion and has hundreds of finished and unfinished songs.