Oscar van Dillen
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Oscar van Dillen (born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 1958) is a Dutch musician.
Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music (sitar, tabla, vocal) with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley, California from 1977 to 1980, as well as classical and jazz flute at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1984. Here, he also received composition lessons from Misha Mengelberg.
After studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium), he studied classical composition with, among others, Dick Raaymakers and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990/1991 and with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002. He also studied composition with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann College in Düsseldorf in 2001, where he also received lessons in conducting from Lutz Herbig.
Van Dillen lives in Rotterdam and teaches World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory there.
Selection of works
- Saxophone Quartet No. 1 (1996)
- Conga for one percussionist (1996)
- Toccata Sanguinica for Baroque guitar (1996)
- Zwaar is Mooi for ensemble (1997)
- Ignatia for clarinet solo (1998)
- Tarentula for recorder duo (1998)
- Tijd Speelt Geen Rol for ensemble (1998)
- Summa Scientia for female choir (1999)
- String Quartet No. 1 (1999)
- Objet Privé (das Ding an mich) for violoncello solo (1999)
- Le Panache for piano (2000)
- Méditation for piano (2000)
- Labyrinth for three moving trombone players (2001)
- de Beweging for large orchestra (2001)
- Memos for a New Millennium for Disklavier with Player (2002)
- Roter Damm Verwandelt for solo rapper, ensemble and soundscape (2002)
- de Stad for ensemble (2003)
- mm3 for Toy piano (2004)
- Forecast for violin, violoncello and bayan (2004)
In September 2003 de Stad is released on Super Audio CD with Cybele Records.de:Oscar van Dillen nl:Oscar van Dillen