The music of American-born composer and singer/songwriter Ian Dicke (b. 1982) includes works for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, and electronic media. Heralded by the San Francisco Classical Voice as “colorful, well-designed, and deftly scored,” Dicke’s works offer a unique social-political critique of contemporary popular culture. Writing on topics that range from the recent Wall Street financial meltdown to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dicke’s music is often characterized by a mix of pungent and triadic harmonies, dance-like rhythms, and layered ostinati.
Dicke’s works have been presented by many ensembles and festivals around the world, including the ISCM World New Music Days, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop, Music X, the Redshift Ensemble, Gamma-UT, Vox Novus, and the SCI National Conference. In 2007, Dicke was awarded a MetLife Creative Connections grant from the Meet the Composer Foundation.
Dicke holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is currently a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin. Dicke’s past teachers include David Conte, Dan Becker, Bright Sheng, and Michael Daugherty.
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