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Jules Buckley
Buckley performing in 2024
Background information
Birth name	Julian Buckley
Born	(1980-01-08) 8 January 1980 (age 45) Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Genres	Eclectic classical folk jazz film score
Occupations	Arranger conductor composer
Member of	Metropole Orkest, The Heritage Orchestra
Website	www.julesbuckley.com

Julian "Jules" Buckley (born 8 January 1980) is an English conductor, composer, and arranger.

Career

In 2004, Buckley and producer/manager Chris Wheeler co-founded the Heritage Orchestra, with the intention of featuring an orchestra in a music club setting. In 2008, Buckley became principal guest conductor of the Metropole Orkest, a jazz and eclectic music orchestra based in Hilversum, in the Netherlands, and chief conductor from 2013. In 2020, he became Creative Artist-in-Residence with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and stood in as presenter of the BBC Radio 3 programme Classical Fix, in place of Clemency Burton-Hill, who suffered a brain haemorrhage in January 2020.

Collaborations

Buckley has worked with the WDR Big Band; José James and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Patrick Watson and the Orchestre National d'Île de France; and arranged and conducted Caro Emerald's album The Shocking Miss Emerald and Jacob Collier's album Djesse Vol. 1. Other collaborations have included projects with Gregory Porter; Tori Amos; Markus Stockhausen; Emilie-Claire Barlow; Michael Kiwanuka; Louis Cole; Jonathan Jeremiah; Basement Jaxx; Massive Attack; Arctic Monkeys; John Cale; Paul Weller; Emeli Sandé; The Cinematic Orchestra; Jamie Cullum; Cory Wong; Beardyman; Cory Henry ; Snarky Puppy; Becca Stevens; Andrea Motis and Dizzee Rascal.

Awards

In February 2016, the Snarky Puppy album Sylva, featuring Buckley and the Metropole Orkest, won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. At the end of 2016, Classic House with Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra reached No. 1 in the Album Charts. In 2020, the song "All Night Long" by Jacob Collier, featuring Take 6 and the Metropole Orkest, won an award for the "Best arrangement, instrumental and vocal" at the 62nd Grammy Awards.

In 2018, Buckley and Metropole Orkest were awarded the Bremer Musikfest-Preis in special recognition of their contribution to the success of Musikfest Bremen.

Notable recent performances

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• August 2016: BBC Prom 49, with the Metropole Orkest, celebrating the music of Quincy Jones.
• February 2017: National Symphony Orchestra, with Snarky Puppy at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC.
• August 2018: BBC Proms with the Heritage Orchestra for a late-night Prom "New York Now", celebrating the changing soundscape of New York and featuring artists from that city, including Hercules and Love Affair.
• June 2019: "Soundtrack of the 80s with Quincy Jones", with the Metropole Orkest at London's O2 arena.
• August 2019: BBC Prom 45, with the Metropole Orkest in a homage to Nina Simone, with Ledisi and Lisa Fischer.
• September 2019: BBC Prom 64 with the Heritage Orchestra and the Soul Mavericks, featuring Terra & Eddie, Sunni and Lagaet.
• February 2020: Seattle Symphony Orchestra, "The Best of Quincy Jones", at Benaroya Hall, Seattle.
• February 2020: BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring Lianne La Havas, at the Barbican Centre, London.
• August 2021: BBC Proms, with BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring Moses Sumney.
• September 2024: BBC Proms, with his orchestra and Florence and The Machine for "Symphony of Lungs"

Personal life

Buckley was born and grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in the UK. He is the son of Keith Buckley (a doctor) and Joan Buckley, and attended Aylesbury Grammar School. Buckley started playing the trumpet aged nine at the Aylesbury Music Centre. He played in the Aylesbury Music Centre Dance Band and went on to study trumpet at the Guildhall School of Music in London, before changing to classical composition. His initial ambition was to be a jazz trumpeter, but at the Guildhall School his interests grew to include musical composition and conducting. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

Discography

References

1. "Grammy award-winning Jules Buckley returns to Aylesbury to lead former students' tribute concert in memory of inspirational bandleader and mentor Nick Care". Wendover News. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
2. "Jules Buckley". www.schott-music.com.
3. "Classical Fix". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
4. "BBC presenter recovering from brain haemorrhage". BBC News. 15 August 2020. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
5. ^ "GRAMMY Award Results for Jules Buckley". GRAMMY.com. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
6. Whitehouse, Richard (22 August 2016). "Prom 49: Quincy Jones Prom – Metropole Orkest/Jules Buckley with Richard Bona, Jacob Collier, Laura Mvula, Alfredo Rodríguez, Cory Henry". The Classical Source. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
7. "Prom 45: Mississippi Goddam: A Homage to Nina Simone". The Classical Source. 21 August 2019.
8. "Moses Sumney Meets Jules Buckley and the BBC Symphony Orchestra". Proms. BBC. 21 August 2021.
9. "Meet the Maestro: Jules Buckley". Rhinegold. 16 November 2023. Archived from the original on 6 April 2022.
10. "Grammy award for Aylesbury Grammar School alumni Jules Buckley". Bucks Herald. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
11. Beek, Michael (29 June 2021). "Jules Buckley: the inimitable conductor, composer and arranger serving up an infectious mix of classical, pop and jazz". Classical Music. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
12. "Facing the music: Jules Buckley". The Guardian. 29 August 2016.
13. Sampson, Annabel (11 September 2024). "Why Jules Buckley is the conductor with the Midas touch bringing pure gold to the Proms". The Tatler. Retrieved 10 December 2024.

External links

• Metropole Orkest page on Jules Buckley
• Information about Jules Buckley on Serious News Archived 4 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Homepage of the Heritage Orchestra
• A.P. Childs, 'Orchestra man and popster Jules Buckley on Holland’s Cross-Linx festival & more'. Art Rocker, 15 April 2015

• 1980 births
• 21st-century English conductors (music)
• 21st-century English male musicians
• Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
• English composers
• English male conductors (music)
• Grammy Award winners
• Living people
• People educated at Aylesbury Grammar School
• People from Aylesbury