Peter Bucknell

Peter Wentworth Bucknell (born 1967) is a filmmaker, author and classical violist residing in Barcelona.

Film Peter Bucknell is a commercial and documentary filmmaker who has worked also as an underwater camera operator on projects including the short film *Gasp!* (2011) and the television series *Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern* (2016, Season 8, "The Bronx"). In 2014, he wrote *The Underwater GoPro Book*, a manual on the use of GoPro cameras for underwater filming. He also produced, filmed and edited the documentary *Mist of the Perfume River* (2019), which follows comedian Hung Le revisiting Vietnam for the tenth anniversary of his father’s death. Bucknell has filmed in locations such as New York's shipwrecks and Mexico's caves.

Performing arts Author of Violin is Easy, a pedagogical book for teachers and students, Bucknell began in the performing arts as a classical musician. He performed the Australian premiere, broadcast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, of Chaconne for Viola and Orchestra by Michael Colgrass. He performed and recorded as solo violist with Apollo's Fire, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Les Concerts du Monde, and Los Angeles Musica Viva. He was guest principal viola in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia. He was the principal violist with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra from 1998 - 2009. He appeared as a guest on Jim Henson's The Ghost of Faffner Hall as a member of the Como String Quartet in 1988.

As a member of the Danel Quartet, specialising in the string quartets of Dmitri Shostakovich, Bucknell has appeared at Wigmore Hall and in many other European halls, and on Radio France. As a member of the Stradivari Sextet, Bucknell was loaned the "Mahler Stradivarius."