Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past twenty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule fr Musik in Freiburg, Germany. Steven Schick has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival among many others. He has recorded many of those works for SONY Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI and will release a new solo CD with Neuma Records.
From 1984 to 1992, Schick taught at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse fr Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, co-directing the course's seminal percussion program with James Wood. He has been regular guest lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London. Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music.
Steven Schick is the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Other important ongoing collaborations include work with pianist James Avery, the percussion group "red fish blue fish" and the Maya Beiser/Steven Schick
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