James Dillon (composer)

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James Dillon (born October 29, 1950 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish composer often regarded as belonging to the New Complexity school.

Dillon studied art and design, linguistics, piano, acoustics, Indian rhythm, mathematics and computer music, but is self-taught in composition.

Honours include first prize in the Huddersfield Festival (1978), the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at Darmstadt (1982) and three Royal Philharmonic Society composition awards, most recently for his Fourth String Quartet. Dillon taught at Darmstadt from 1982 to 1992, and has been a guest lecturer and composer at various institutions around the world. His music has been published by Edition Peters since 1982.

Dillon is on the faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

[edit] Works List

  • (2006) Andromeda, concerto for piano & orchestra


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