Rachel Buchman

Rachel Buchman has lived the life of a musician as a teacher, recording artist and performer for over 50 years in the U.S. and internationally. She was certified as a teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics by Lisa Parker and was a dedicated student of Anne Farber with whom she shared a love for the upper westside of Manhattan, jazz, and irony. Her Dalcroze education started in high school: she was a devoted student of Dr. Hilda M. Schuster at the Dalcroze School in Manhattan. Upon graduation, Dr. Schuster wrote Rachel a letter saying that she hoped she would become a Dalcroze teacher one day. Rachel is a visiting clinician at the Yale School of Music. Through the lens of Dalcroze principles, she is training graduate students to teach underserved children in the New Haven Public Schools through a Yale program called Music in the School Initiative (MISI). Since 2020 she has taught eurhythmics and singing in Title One schools with the non-profit Hope Stone, Inc. while mentoring Hope Stone’s young teaching artists. Since 2015, Rachel has taught eurhythmics and singing at the School for Young Children, a school for children with language related learning differences. Rachel teaches private piano lessons to children and adults. She rides and trains horses finding connections between her eurhythmic training and her equine experiences. She practices Iyengar Yoga and Zen meditation, fosters rescue animals, gardens, and loves being grandma to twin girls.