Fatrock Ink is among the few music publishers of compositions for pedal harp and non-pedal lever harp in a specialty catalogue focusing on the repertoire areas of harp solo, chamber music with harp, educational harp books, educational violin solo, educational string orchestra arrangements, and works by 20th and 21st century American composers.
History
Founded in 1994 by Marcia Dickstein, harpist and Artistic Director of The Debussy Trio, Fatrock Ink was associated for the first ten years with Theodore Presser Company of Pennsylvania. Since 2005, it has been self-distributing internationally. Dickstein conceived of the company primarily to provide dissemination of the many commissions by The Debussy Trio of chamber music with harp, in addition to the numerous compositions that were winners of the Debussy Trio Music Foundation International Composition Competition. Since then, numerous titles focusing on contemporary music for harp, especially by American composers, have been accepted for publication and international distribution, thus adding to Fatrock Ink's ever-expanding catalogue. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Dickstein has inspired composers from around the world to write over 100 new works for harp in classical, film and jazz/fusion genres. She has performed these works throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, over National Public Radio and on commercial and public TV. In addition she had recorded many of these compositions, which are available through Fatrock Ink and on the Klavier, First Edition, Harmonia Mundi, Koch and RCM labels. Dickstein has played on over 350 film scores such as Toy Story I-III, The Matrix I-III, Alice in Wonderland, The Royal Tennenbaums, Minority Report, Memoirs of a Geisha, Horton Hears a Who, Indiana Jones 4; CD solos with the Roger Wagner and William Hall Chorales; CDs of chamber music of Arnold Bax; and numerous recordings with The Debussy Trio, including 3 Friends, a "best pick" by Gramophone magazine of London. Adjunct Professor of Harp at California State University, Long Beach, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and Westmont College, Dickstein is also Teacher/Artistic Director of the Central Coast Harp Workshop in California. She holds master classes throughout the United States and maintains a private studio in Los Angeles.
