Robert Dickow

Robert Dickow (* 1949 in San Francisco ) is an American composer, horn player and music teacher.

Dickow had piano and violin lessons as a child and began playing the horn at the age of ten. At the age of twelve he became a horn player with the California Youth Symphony , later a solo horn player. He studied horn with Charles Bubb and Ralph Hotz of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and after graduating from high school performed with musicians as diverse as Ornette Coleman and Bing Crosby , Seiji Ozawa and Robert Craft . In 1969 he was a member of the Amici Della Musica Chamber Orchestra , then principal horn of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra .

He continued his education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a doctorate in composition. He has also performed with the San Jose Symphony Orchestra , the San Francisco and Oakland Symphony Orchestras, and the San Francisco Wind Quintet . As a winner of the George Ladd Prix de Paris , he lived in London from 1973 to 1975 and worked here with the Fitzwilliam String Quartet , the Park Lane Players , the Orchestra of St. John's-Smith Square and the American Horn Quartet .

After teaching for two years at Berkeley, he taught at Transylvania University in Lexington, and finally at Northwestern University . He appears with the Lionel Hampton School of Music wind quintet and the Spokane Symphony and is principal horn player with the Washington Idaho Symphony . He composed chamber music and vocal works as well as electronic music, which u. a. at the Society for Electronic Music in the United States and at the 14th Florida Electronic Music Festival .

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