Texas native John Dickson received his musical training at Stephen F. Austin University in Texas, the University of Miami (FL) and at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, earning degrees in Piano/French Horn, Composition, Conducting, and Commercial Music and Production. He is currently the composer for USA’s smash hit Burn Notice, and has composed scores for many television series, TV movies and films including the Leslie Bibb film Miss Nobody, The Fall Of Sam Axe, Fox’s The Good Guys, Killer per Caso, A Galaxy Far Far Away, and many SyFyfeatures including Mammoth, Alien Lockdown, Lost Colony, and Mark Lester’s Pterodactyl. He has provided additional music and orchestrations for film and TV projects such as XXX, Cool World, The Wonder Years, Crossroads, Stephen King's The Stand, Who Killed the Electric Car?, and many others. John worked with jazz legend Chick Corea as an orchestrator/arranger for the 2000 Grammy Award-winning 'Spain for Sextet and Orchestra.” John has scored numerous national ads and trailers, and his compositions have appeared in everything from The Oprah Winfrey Show to All My Children and General Hospital, to the Today Show, the NFL on FOX and ABC World News Now. As an arranger/orchestrator John has worked with some of the all time greats including Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Billy Joel, Liza Minnelli, Johnny Mathis, Patti Austin, Eddie van Halen, and Kenny Loggins. He has performed and/or recorded with artists such as Alanis Morissette, Harry Connick Jr., Shirley Horn, Alan Parsons, Mick Fleetwood, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Lionel Richie, and 'Weird' Al Yankovic, and played on dozens of film scores, TV shows, and commercials. He’s a member of SAG, AFTRA, RMA, AFM, ASCAP, and the Society of Composers and Lyricists. John is a four-time ASCAP TV and Film Music Award winner.