2024 Guest Conductor

Dr. Thomas Taylor Dickey

Director of Orchestral Studies Oklahoma State University

Gold Prize Winner in the 2022 World Classical Music Awards and the 2nd Prize Winner of the  2019 Mozart & Tchaikovsky International Conducting Competition, Dr. Thomas Taylor Dickey  has been reviewed by critics as a "dynamic and exciting conductor" whose conducting is "imbued  with aplomb, energy, and pathos." Dr. Dickey currently serves as the Director of Orchestral Studies  at Oklahoma State University, where he conducts the OSU Symphony Orchestra and guides all  aspects of the orchestra and graduate orchestral conducting programs. He is also the Music  Director & Conductor of the OSU Youth & Community Orchestras. Prior to his appointments in  Oklahoma, he was the Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville  and Music Director & Conductor of the Dubuque Symphony Youth Orchestra (IA). 

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Dr. Dickey has conducted many professional orchestras throughout North America, Europe, and  Asia, including the Bucharest Symphony and Bacau Philharmonic Orchestras in Romania; Danube  Symphony Orchestra in Hungary; Belgrade Chamber Orchestra in Serbia; Lyatoshinsky  Symphony Orchestra in Ukraine; Shenyang Symphony in China; the North Czech and Moravian  Philharmonic Orchestras in the Czech Republic; Atlantic Coast Orchestra in Portugal; London  Classical Soloists in England; and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in Canada, in addition to  the Bakersfield, Macon, Missouri, Norwalk, Rapides, Springfield, and Tulsa symphonies; the  Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island; the Smoky Mountain International Chamber Orchestra;  Naples Philharmonic; Rose City Chamber Orchestra; and the Chicago Reading Orchestra. He has  also worked with numerous all-state, honors, and university orchestras in Arkansas, Colorado,  Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan,  Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma,  Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington,  Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

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Dr. Dickey holds degrees from the University of Georgia, LSU, and Eastern Illinois University.  He has worked with conductors such as Jin Wang, Jorma Panula, Carl Topilow, Christopher  Zimmerman, Daniel Lewis, Gustav Meier, and Diane Wittry, and further studied conducting in Dr. Dickey holds degrees from the University of Georgia, LSU, and Eastern Illinois University.  He has worked with conductors such as Jin Wang, Jorma Panula, Carl Topilow, Christopher  Zimmerman, Daniel Lewis, Gustav Meier, and Diane Wittry, and further studied conducting in  numerous workshops and masterclasses at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts, Cleveland  Institute of Music, and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, among others.