Loek Dikker

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]

Loek Dikker
Loek Dikker in 1989
Background information
Born	(1944-02-28) 28 February 1944 (age 81) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Genres	jazz, classical music
Occupation(s)	conductor, composer, instrumentalist
Years active	1959 (1959)–present
Website	www.loekdikker.com

Biography

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 [nl], is a screenwriter and director.^[7]

Filmography (as composer)

• Two Queens and One Consort [nl] (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]

Musical recordings

Jazz

• Love Cry and Super Nimbus (1970)
• Tan Tango (1975)
• Domesticated Doomsday (1978)
• The Waterland Big Band Is hot! Part 1 / Part 2 (1979)
• Mayhem in our Streets (1980)
• Summer Suite (1982)

Classical

• To Paul Desmond (1991)
• Overijssels Volkslied (2000)
• South Side Ground Zero Boogie Blues (2004)^[8]

Awards

• 1983: Silver Desk for Best Dutch film music, for The Fourth Man^[4]
• 1990: Golden Calf, for his body of work from 1985–1990^[2]
• 1991: Saturn Award for Best Music, for Body Parts^[2]
• 2004: Ravello Cinemusica (Italy), for Best European film music, for Rosenstraße^[4]