about
The music of American-born composer Ian Dicke (b. 1982, Trenton, NJ) includes works for orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensembles, and electronic media. Heralded by the San Francisco Classical Voice as “colorful, well-designed, and deftly scored,” Dicke’s works often explore contemporary social-political culture through a mixture of pungent and triadic harmonies, dance-like rhythms, and intricately layered textures.
Dicke’s music has been performed by many ensembles and festivals around the world, including the ISCM World New Music Days, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Music X, Redshift, the Atlantic Coast Center Band Director’s Association, and the SCI National Conference. Dicke has received awards and recognition from the Fulbright Program, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Meet the Composer Foundation, ASCAP, and BMI, among others. He was recently awarded two summer 2012 artist residencies: The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Art342 in Fort Collins, Colorado.
In 2010, Dicke co-founded and directed Fast Forward Austin, an all day new music festival in Austin, TX. The festival pairs local and international cutting-edge artists in a “welcomingly relaxed venue…[that] taps into what is so great about the Austin vibe: a community of people who are artistically curious, non-doctrinaire, and unpretentious” (NewMusicBox).
Dicke is an Assistant Professor of Digital Composition at the University of California, Riverside. He holds degrees from The University of Texas at Austin, University of Michigan, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Dicke has studied composition with David Conte, Dan Becker, Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, Dan Welcher, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Donald Grantham, and Russell Pinkston.
Dicke is a current recipient of a Fulbright grant and is researching Swedish electronic music in Stockholm during the 2012-2013 academic year.
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