Oscar van Dillen

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen ( born June 25, 1958 in 's- Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) is a Dutch composer.

He studied from 1977 to 1980, the classical music of North India ( sitar, tabla, vocals) at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam at Jamaluddin Bhartiya and the bansuri School of Music in Berkeley (California ) at Gurbachan Singh Sachdev and 1982-1984 classical and jazz flute at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. Here he also received composition lessons from Misha Mengelberg.

After studying the music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by Paul Van Nevel in Leuven, he studied in the years 1990 and 1991 composition in The Hague at the Koninklijk Conservatorium among others, Dick Raaijmakers and Gilius van Bergeijk and 1996-2002 composition with Klaas de Vries, Peter -Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory, also in 2001 Manfred Trojahn at the Robert- Schumann -Hochschule in Dusseldorf, where he was also conducting lessons by Lutz Herbig.

Oscar van Dillen lives in Rotterdam and teaches at the Conservatory classical music theory in the Department of jazz, pop and world music.

Works (selection)

  • Saxophone Quartet No.1 (1996 )
  • Conga for a Drummer (1996 )
  • Toccata Sanguinica for Baroque Guitar ( 1996)
  • Zwaar is Mooi for ensemble (1997)
  • Ignatia for clarinet ( 1998)
  • Tarentula for Blockflötenduo (1998)
  • Geen Tijd speelt role for ensemble (1998)
  • Summa Scientia for female choir (1999)
  • String Quartet No.1 (1999)
  • Objet Privé ( the thing to me) for cello (1999)
  • Le Panache for piano (2000)
  • Méditation for piano (2000)
  • Maze for three moving trombone (2001)
  • De Beweging for large orchestra (2001)
  • Memos for a New Millennium for Disklavier with Players (2002)
  • Red Dam Transforms for solo rapper, Cast and Soundscape (2002)
  • De Stad ', Chamber Symphony (2003)
  • Mm3 for ' Toy Piano ' (2003)

De Stad appeared in 2003 with the "Ensemble Gelber Klang " on Super Audio CD at Cybele Records.

Mm3 was " The untempered piano " played by Bernd Wiese man on the SACD.

Indian classical music Singing Conservatorium van Amsterdam Medieval music Dick Raaymakers Klaas de Vries (composer) Peter-Jan Wagemans Integrated Authority File
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