David Dickau

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Dr. David Dickau (born 1953) is a choral conductor and choral composer residing in Mankato, Minnesota where he is Director of Choral Activities at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has many pieces published through various companies and his music has been performed by prestigious choirs around the world.

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[edit] Biography

As a part of his duties at Minnesota State, Mankato; Dr. Dickau conducts the Concert Choir and teaches conducting and composition. Dr. Dickau holds advanced degrees in Choral Music from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California.) He has taught choral music on both the high school and college levels and has conducted community and church choirs. He also served as music director of Magnum Chorum, a Twin Cities-based St. Olaf alumni choir.

Dr. Dickau has filled commissions for choral festivals, churches, and schools. Recent commissions have included Dresden Canticles, composed in honor of the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche in Dresden, Germany, "View from the Air" commissioned by the Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation in honor of the seventieth anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's historic trans-Atlantic flight, and "Of Life and Love" commissioned by the Arkansas Chamber Singers in celebration of their twenty-fifth anniversary.

[edit] Published Pieces (incomplete list)

  • "Come, O Come, My Life's Delight" words by Thomas Campion From the suite: Of Life and Love
  • "Echo" words by Christina Rossetti From the suite: Of Life and Love
  • "in time of daffodils" words by E. E. Cummings From the suite: Of Life and Love
  • "Go Lovely Rose" words by Edmund Waller
  • "If Music Be the Food of Love" words by Henry Heveningham
  • "Psalm of Praise"
  • "To Musique" words by Robert Herrick
  • "Stars I Shall Find" words by Sara Teasdale
  • "O My Luve's Like A Red, Red, Rose" by Robert Burns
  • "Footprints," words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, commissioned for Dr. J. Richard Dewey, Principal of Eastview High School 1997-2007

[edit] Arranged Pieces (incomplete list)

[edit] Companies Published Through

  • Walton Music [1]
  • Pavane Publishing [2]
  • Gentry Publications [3]

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