Leo Dick

Biography

Leo Dick, born in 1976 in Basel, studied composition and opera direction in Berlin and continued as masterclass
student of Georges Aperghis in the class Théâtre Musical at the Bern University of the Arts (HKB). The
focus of his artistic work are forms of the new music theatre. He directed his own work at numerous theatres, for
instance in Bielefeld, Oldenburg, Bern and Luxemburg and presented them as guest performances at the
Bern Biennial, Music Festival Bern, World New Music Theatre Days and the Hellenic Festivals.
Since 2008, he has been teaching in the master programme Composition and Creative Practice (formerly
Composition and Theory/Théâtre Musical) at the HKB. In 2017, he finished his doctoral thesis on spoken lines
in the composed theatre (“Sprechauftritt im Composed Theatre”). Since then he has been also member of the
research team on interfaces in contemporary music at the HKB as research assistant and coordinator. In 2019,
he received a four-year postdoc grant (Ambizione) from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) for his
research project “Helvetia mediatrix: Advanced Music Theatre and Collective Identity Formation in Switzerland
Since 1945”.