David Bicknase has been a piano player, composer and teacher for over 40 years. He started playing piano at age four, studying a myriad of styles of music over the next sixteen years. David began performing in bands at twelve years of age, after numerous recitals and a dozen bands: styles ranging from Jazz to Rock to Multimedia to Bar and Show Bands, he has settled into solo piano and has performed steadily for the last 30 years. Formal composing by David started in 1968 and professional recordings by 1979.

His influences are wide and varied, they range from Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Keith Jarrett, George Shearing, Billy Joel, Elton John, along with Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, John Cage, also the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Susan Ciani, David Lanz, David Arkenstone and Steven Halpern.

His style of composing is as varied as his influences and stretches from New Age to Jazz to Meditative Space and Healing to the Blues, Ballads and Contemporary Adult rock, along with Film Scores, Waltzes and Lullabies. David has been very influenced by the cosmos, the sounds of nature and the rhythm of our planet, along with the vibrations of the spirit. David continues to write and record songs of love, dreams and the stirrings of the human soul to find the “Universal Sound.”

David has lived near Madison, Wisconsin for the past 40 years where nature is beautiful and peace and harmony are cultivated.