Pianist, composer, performer, lecturer, recording artist,
arranger and conductor, Geoffrey Dana Hicks is a musician
of many talents. In February of 2002, the Geoffrey Hicks
Quartet entertained hundreds of guests at the John F.
Kennedy Library in Boston, to celebrate Senator Edward M.
Kennedy’s seventieth birthday, in an evening celebration
which also also featured cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
In June, 1990, the Geoffrey Hicks Trio, also featuring
saxophonist Bobby Tynes, entertained hundreds of guests at
the John F. Kennedy Library, in Boston, for honored guest
Nelson Mandela which was hosted by Senator Edward M.
Kennedy, in an afternoon celebration also featuring
Stevie Wonder.
Dr. Hicks is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music (BM in composition, ’76), the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), (MM in conducting, ’83),
Andover Newton Theological School (M. Div., ’88), and most recently, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (Doctorate in Ministry, ’09). Dr. Hicks was
born in St. Louis, Missouri, where his father at the time was the first African-American journalist to write for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dr. Hicks has
performed jazz in Berlin, Germany, (where he also grew up, when his father became an American Diplomat), Monrovia, Liberia; Rhodes, Greece; Rome, Todi;
Paris; Mazamet; St. Moritz; Madrid; Barcelona; Toronto; Atlanta; San Francisco; Washington, D. C., and New York City.

Dr.Hicks has also performed as a singer/pianist at most major Boston Hotels, including the Westin Hotel, the Ritz-Carlton, Le Meridien, the
Copley Plaza, the Charles Hotel (in Cambridge), and many others. Dr. Hicks has also conducted several choral groups; including the New
England Conservatory Youth Chorale, the Rosie’s Place Jazz Choir, the Nativity Prep Boy’s Choir of Roxbury, and many more. Familiar with
such performance facilities as Boston’s Jordan Hall, Symphony Hall, the Hatch Shell, the Tsai Performance Center, Carnegie Hall, and the
White House, Dr. Hicks has performed before congressmen, presidents, and several international dignitaries.
Dr. Hicks continues to play jazz with his Quartet in solo performances throughout the United States and abroad. His CDs include Take Me
Away, Cartagena, along with solo CDs My Favorite Swings, My Funny Valentine, and Besame Mucho, which feature exciting collections
of original, standard smooth jazz. The Hicks Quartet has performed at
Scullers Jazz Club, and at the
Top of the Hub, as well as numerous
social and charity events throughout New England.