Keith Dippre
Keith Dippre was born in Ancon, Panama in 1960. He received his undergraduate degree from Azusa Pacific University in California and his M.A. from California State University at Los Angeles. For roughly eight years, prior to beginning doctoral studies in composition at Ohio State, he played the resort and nightclub circuit on the West Coast and was a multi-keyboardist in the hip-hop oriented "Raw Nature." While living in California, he had the privilege of opening concerts for artists such as Debbie Gibson and doing studio work with popular jazz saxophonist Boney James. While at Ohio State, Dippre was the recipient of the Ruth Friscoe award for composition (1998) and was Composer-in-Residence with the Ohio State University Symphony Orchestra (1999). He made his festival debut as accordionist in OSU's Contemporary Music Festival 2001 playing the Lucas Foss piece "Curriculum Vitae with Time Bomb." While at The Ohio State University, his principal teacher of composition was Dr. Jan Radzynski. Dippre's composition, "Chorus of Cows," was given its Columbus premiere during Contemporary Music Festival 2000. He has recently produced a piano concerto entitled "700 N. Electric," and a document, "Compositional Issues with Corigliano, Oliveros, and Kernis." He is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Methodist University, teaching such courses as music theory, aural skills, composition, and music technology. His most current orchestral work is entitled "Ikons," which will premier with the Fayetteville Symphony (Fayetteville, North Carolina) on February 6th, 2005. Dr. Dippre recently received a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County and was an artist-in-residence at the Artist's Enclave at I-Park (East Haddam, Connecticut). In October of 2003 his piece "Pilgrim's Blues" (for piano, violin, and cowbell) premiered in Northampton, Massachusetts commemorating the tercentenary celebration of Jonathan Edwards. He also prepared the musical examples for the musicology text "The Pleasures of Modernist Music" by Arved Ashby.
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