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

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 teaches World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam. He lives in the same city.

In September 2003 van Dillen's first CD, de Stad (the City), was released on Super Audio CD under the Cybele Records label.

From December 2006 to July 2007 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.

[edit] 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)

[edit] Recognition

2001: nominated for Jonge Componistenprijs (Young Composers Award) of Holland Symfonia
2007: nominated for a Gouden Kalf (Dutch Oscar equivalent) for the score of the movie Forecast

[edit] External links

Website Van Dillen