Background
Buchanan was born in Christchurch, the second of six daughters in a musical family, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Canterbury University in 1967 and a teaching degree from Christchurch Teachers College in 1975.
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Dorothy Buchanan
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University of Canterbury.
Career
Buchanan has been active in music education. In 1976 she became New Zealand’s first composer-in-schools and has been a guest lecturer, adjudicator, musical director, advisor to teacher support services and an assessor with Creative New Zealand panels. In 1979 she served as president of the Composers’ Association of New Zealand and founded the Christchurch Music hops.
In 1980 she co-founded the music publishing co-operative Nota Bene which provides a hire library of music for schools and community use.
Buchanan also worked with the New Zealand Film Archive beginning in 1984. Philip Neill Memorial Prize from the University of Otago in 1995 for Fragments and Letters.
