JAMES DICK

FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL-INSTITUTE

Slowly, and with remarkable care, he and the brilliant team he has created have produced a remarkable institution with a 200 acre campus of incomparable beauty.

 

The wooded countryside on the edge of Round Top nestles wonder after wonder. Stone bridges lead to beautifully restored Victorian homes surrounded by clever herb gardens amidst crumbling ruins. It's dreamlike.

 

There's a reason for that.

 

It was a dream.

 

James Dick's dream...at least the first part of it...has come true.

 

Read the Round Top Register's interview of this fascinating man.

 

He graduated from the University of Texas with special honors in piano in 1963. He was a student of pianist and pedagogue Dalies Frantz. Subsequently, Dick received two Fulbright Fellowships for study at the Royal Academy of Music in London and private study with Sir Clifford Curzon, a major pianist of this century.

 

Dick was also a top winner in the Tchaikovsky, Busoni and Leventritt international competitions and since, represented the United States on the juries of the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in Fort Worth.

 

His concert tours take him throughout the United States and abroad each year. He was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres of France by the French Ministry of Culture in 1994.

 

You get the idea...this is a talented man. Much of the architecture, as well as the music, at the institute comes from his creative talents. One only has to visit to appreciate that a man can be a virtuoso in more than one discipline.




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