Education
He graduated from Wilson High School (Portland, Oregon) in 1991 then attended The Juilliard School, where he earned degrees in viola performance and composition.
He graduated from Wilson High School (Portland, Oregon) in 1991 then attended The Juilliard School, where he earned degrees in viola performance and composition.
Bunch performed in the Portland Youth Philharmonic for five years (1986–1991). In March 2010 Bunch returned to Portland, Oregon for a performance of his orchestral work "Foreign Our Children"s Children," by the Portland Youth Philharmonic. On the same concert, he joined the orchestra onstage to perform Dmitri Shostakovich"s Symphony Number.
5, which he has said helped to inspire him to become a composer.
Bunch"s composition String Circle Number. 1 is featured on the 2012 album Heavy from string quartet ETHEL. In June 2013, Bunch was named the interim director of the Fear Number Music Young Composers Project.