Joel Hickman Music

Biography

Joel David Hickman

was born in Valparaiso, Indiana and resides in Hebron, Indiana. Joel has a Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Performance (Classical Guitar) from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and a certificate in recording engineering from The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio. He studied classical guitar with Paul Henry and composition with Robert Lombardo at Chicago Musical

College. He has been teaching music privately for over 20 years and at Chantal’s Music Institute for children in Valparaiso, Indiana for over 13 years instructing guitar and piano. www.zoominfo.com/p/Joel-Hickman/289202376 Chantal’s website: www.merchantcircle.com/business/Chantals.Music.Institute.for.Children.219-476-0676 He taught classical guitar, basic guitar, and bass at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois and has many private students in different styles and instruments in the Northwestern Indiana and Illinois areas. He also has instruction in piano, violin and trombone. He started playing and performing music at the age of 10 and played the recorder and trombone in Lowell public schools. He started playing the guitar. bass, and piano at the age of 16 and was in many various progressive rock ensembles at this time. Joel is currently in the progressive rock ensemble “Ex Deus” where he performs and composes on the guitar. They are working on a CD. He was in a progressive rock ensemble called “Dalet-Yod”. The album, ‘From The Hands Of Lilith’ was released on Seraph Records in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 2001. They performed in Chicago and Illinois, The ensemble disbanded in 2007 after 7 years. Joel and Steve Piscione (Dalet-Yod) have also performed and recorded in a progressive acoustic guitar duo called “Nylon Steel”. They have two self-released CDs in this project. Joel was also in a progressive/experimental classical project with Mike Pancini simply called “The Hickman/Pancini Project”. On their first CD release “Voyaging Clockwise Off The Symboled Harbour” (2002), Joel performed and composed on the piano and Mike performed and composed on the violin. They released 3 CDs in this project. Joel has also worked with other ensembles The Wandering Jews which they had performances in 2007 in Indiana and Illinois and recorded with Harry Unsworth and James Cooper in 2009 and has recorded with Stan Roy Scott on comedy prose in a variety of situations . Joel’s music was featured in a film by Cameron Scott called “Post Mortem, America 2021″ Joel has performed on radio. In 2005, he performed his composition “Rondo in Eb” on WJOB. He has his own radio show with Micah Morgan called The Saturday Soundboard. www.facebook.com/Saturdaysoundboard?ref=hl Joel performs live guitar on the show. Micah and Joel feature live, local and underground music as well as a variety of conversation. The show debuted on August 3, 2013. He has had his recordings performed on 60X60. A group of composers -60 seconds- 60 composers where they have their various compositions played in different locations throughout the world. www.voxnovus.com/ In February 2012, Joel won 1st place in The UnTwelve composers competition in Chicago. His quarter-tone guitar piece called: “like the automatic couplings of railway carriages” untwelve.org/competition/2011 untwelve.org/ On July 20, 2013, Joel performed his new piece “At Morn, At Noon, At Twilight Dim” at the City Winery in Chicago and was broadcasted on 98.7 worldwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoYqK4F9O8 Joel has been composing and recording for the classical guitar/piano and other instruments and plans on releasing solo works in the near future. On Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/MrJoelhickmanmusic/videos On Facebook: www.facebook.com/JoelHickmanMusic?ref=hl