Loek Dikker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Loek Dikker | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Loek Dikker in 1989 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 28 February 1944 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Genres | jazz, classical music |
| Occupation(s) | conductor, composer, instrumentalist |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Website | www |
Loek Dikker (born 28 February 1944) is a Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer.[1] Dikker is known for his scores for the films The Fourth Man, Body Parts, and Rosenstraße, among others.[2]
After training as a classical pianist, Dikker became a jazz musician after seeing a 1959 televised performance by Horace Silver and Sonny Rollins.[3] He gave his first jazz performance in 1960, in a jazz and poetry concert with Godfried Bomans.[3] He later performed in the bands of Hans Dulfer and Theo Loevendie, and with American instrumentalists Oliver Nelson, Cannonball Adderley, and Don Byas.[3] In the mid-1970s, he founded his Waterland Ensemble.[3] He wrote his first film score in 1981, and has scored over sixty films.[4]
Dikker is the founder and chairman of Muziekinstituut MultiMedia, an organization founded in 2006 to promote and encourage collaboration among multimedia composers.[5] He is also a board member of FFACE, the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe.[6]
Dikker's sister, Marianne Dikker, is a screenwriter and director.[7]
Filmography (as composer)
- Two Queens and One Consort (1981)
- The Fourth Man (1983)
- Peaceful Days (1984)
- De droomproducenten (1984) – documentary
- Het bittere kruid (1985)
- Passage: A Richard Erdman Sculpture (1985) – documentary
- Slow Burn (1986) – television movie
- Iris (1987)
- Pascali's Island (1988)
- Een scherzo furioso (1990)
- Dilemma (1990)
- Body Parts (1991)
- Nie wieder schlafen (1992)
- The Forbidden Quest (1993)
- Prinzenbad (1993)
- De tussentijd (1993)
- The Babysitter (1995)
- The Commissioner (1998)
- The Escape (1998) – television movie
- Kinderland ist abgebrannt (1998) – documentary
- Felice...Felice... (1998)
- Diva Dolorosa (1999) – documentary
- Führer Ex (2002)
- Science Fiction (2002)
- Rosenstraße (2003)
- Giacomo Casanova (2004) – television movie
- Wolfsbergen (2004)
- Der junge Beethoven (2007)[2]
