Loek Dikker (born ) is a Dutch pianist, conductor, and composer. Dikker is known for his scores for the films The Fourth Man, Body Parts, and Rosenstraße, among others.
Biography After training as a classical pianist, Dikker became a jazz musician after seeing a 1959 televised performance by Horace Silver and Sonny Rollins. He gave his first jazz performance in 1960, in a jazz and poetry concert with Godfried Bomans. He later performed in the bands of Hans Dulfer and Theo Loevendie, and with American instrumentalists Oliver Nelson, Cannonball Adderley, and Don Byas. In the mid-1970s, he founded his Waterland Ensemble. He wrote his first film score in 1981, and has scored over sixty films.
Dikker is the founder and chairman of Muziekinstituut MultiMedia, an organization founded in 2006 to promote and encourage collaboration among multimedia composers. He is also a board member of FFACE, the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers of Europe.
Dikker's sister, , is a screenwriter and director.
Filmography (as composer) (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)
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)
Awards 1983: Silver Desk for Best Dutch film music, for The Fourth Man 1990: Golden Calf, for his body of work from 1985–1990 1991: Saturn Award for Best Music, for Body Parts 2004: Ravello Cinemusica (Italy), for Best European film music, for Rosenstraße
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