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 have 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 Meet the Composer Foundation, ASCAP, BMI, and the New York Youth Symphony, among others. He was recently awarded the 2013 Hoefer Prize from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The award includes a commission from the Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble and a week-long residency prior to the premiere.
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 holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at The University of Texas at Austin. Dicke has studied composition with David Conte, Dan Becker, Bright Sheng, Michael Daugherty, Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, and Russell Pinkston.
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