 His Quartet won the Interpretation Prize in the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.He studied music in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts with Nathan Gutman; in Los Angeles, California with violist Donald McInness; in Siena, Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana with Yuri Bashmet; and in Cologne, Germany with Rainer Moog, a student of Walter Trampler at the Juilliard School, the principal violist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan.Bucknell holds a Bachelor of Economics and Commerce degree from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he studied with professor Mitchell Stern.