Bassoonist Michael Dicker to Perform & Conduct Mozart Concerto

Professor Michael Dicker will be the soloist and also conduct the Illinois State University Chamber Orchestra's performance of Mozart's Concerto for Bassoon in the chamber orchestra's Nov. 12 concert in the Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall.

Admission to the concert, which begins at 8 p.m., is $6 for the general public, $5 for faculty-staff and $4 for students and senior citizens.  Tickets are available at the CPA box office from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays or by phone at (309) 438-2535.

The Chamber Orchestra will begin the concert with Mendelssohn's Overture and Scherzo to "Midsummer Night's Dream."  It will be conducted by Glenn Block, director of Orchestras.   Dicker will perform and conduct the Mozart piece, which will be followed by Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, with Block back on the podium.

Dicker has been on the Illinois State School of Music faculty since 1986, teaching bassoon and coaching woodwind chamber music.  He also has taught music literature and methods courses.  A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Dicker earned his bachelor's degree in music at the University of California at Los Angeles, a certificate in bassoon performance from The Juilliard School and his master's degree from the University of Michigan.