Steven schick biography

Steven Schick (born May or June 1954) is a.
Steven Schick is a percussionist and conductor from the United States, specializing in contemporary classical music.
Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family.

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Part of Hancher's 52nd Season

Part of the Steven Schick Residency

In this performance Steven Schick reflects on the rich history of contemporary music at the University of Iowa. Alongside this rumination, he'll play virtuosic solo percussion pieces that received early and important performances here in Iowa City.

The legacy of contemporary music at the University of Iowa is a rich one. Reflections on that past and on the history dating from the 1970’s—of the University of Iowa Percussion Department and the Center for New Music—will surround performances of percussion solos closely associated with Schick’s practice.

PROGRAM:
Gustavo AGUILAR: Wendell’s History for Steve, Part 1
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN: Zyklus
Sarah HENNIES: Settle, performed with McKenna Blenk
Iannis XENAKIS: Psappha
Gustavo AGUILAR: Wendell’s History for Steve, Part 2

Steven Schick Website

HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
Stephen & Victoria West
West Music

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Steven Schick, conductor & percussionist

Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. Hailed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as, “one of our supreme living virtuosos, not just of percussion but of any instrument,” he has championed contemporary percussion music for nearly 50 years, and in 2014 was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.

Steven Schick is music director emeritus of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, serving as its music director from 2006–22, and the artistic director of the Breckenridge Music Festival. He has guest conducted the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Ensemble Modern, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Asko/Schönberg Ensemble. He was artistic director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (2010–18) and directed programs at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity from 2009–19, the last three as co-artistic director, with Claire Chase, of the Summer Classical Music program.

In 2020, Schick won the Ditson Conduct

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Percussionist, conductor, and author Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For thirty-five years he has championed contemporary music by commissioning and premiering more than one 150 new works. He was the founding percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars (1992-2002) and served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève (2000-2005). Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group “red fish blue fish.” Currently he is Music Director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and Artistic Director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In 2012 he became the first Artist-in-Residence with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). He will be Music Director of the 2015 Ojai Festival. Schick founded and is currently Artistic Director of “Roots and Rhizomes,” a summer course on contemporary percussion music held at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Among his acclaimed publications are a book, “The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams,” and numerous recordings of contemporary percussion music, inclu