David Dichiera
David Dichiera was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States on April 8th, 1935 and is the Composer. At the age of 83, David Dichiera biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David DiChiera ( DEE-ky-AIR-?
(February 8, 1935-1980), an American composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre, who died on September 18, 2018.Career
DiChiera, a native of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated with the highest distinctions from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1956. He was chosen to be a Fulbright scholar for research in Italy, where he did extensive research on eighteenth century operas that were unpublished. This resulted in a series of articles for the world's best music encyclopedias, including Ricordi's Enciclopedia della musica, Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and Bären's Die Musik in Geschichte and Gegenwart.
DiChiera returned to UCLA as an instructor and received his PhD in Musicology from UCLA. DiChiera joined the faculty of music of the newly founded Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, in 1962. He served as assistant dean for Continuing Education in the Arts at Oakland University from 1963 to 1965, and then became Chairman of the Department of Music.
In 1971, DiChiera became Michigan Opera Theatre's founding General Director. He also served as the founding Artistic Director of the Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts. DiChiera served as President of Opera America from 1979 to 1983. He founded the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund/Opera for a New America Campaign that encouraged and aided businesses in reaching previously under-served groups of the population and helped them reach previously unhearded groups of the population, as well as building bridges into America's increasingly diverse population.
DiChiera was elected Artistic Director of the Dayton Opera Association from 1981 to 1993. He was appointed founding General Director of the newly formed Opera Pacific in Orange County in 1986, but he stayed in that position until 1996, when he resigned to devote more time to the opening of the Detroit Opera House.
Opera singer Joan Sutherland cut the ribbon in April 1996 to celebrate the grand opening of the restored Detroit Opera House under DiChiera's tutelage.
DiChiera has served as a trustee for the National Institute of Music Theatre and as a board member of the American Arts Alliance throughout his career. He has served on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as an advisor and chairperson for the Opera/Musical Theater Panel. He has also chaired several national music conferences. DiChiera was chaired the second annual conference of the International Association of Lyric Theatre, which convened in Verona, Italy, and was twice elected vice president of the group.
He has two daughters with Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, Robert VanderKloot's daughter, a Detroit amateur musician and himself a founding member of the Michigan Opera Theatre. Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, a writer, educator, and stage director, is also a founder and director of Michigan Opera Theatre's Department of Community Programs.
DiChiera resigned in February 2016, but he resigned in July 2017.
DiChiera was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2017. He died at his Detroit home on September 18, 2018.