Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.
Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.
Oscar van Dillen (± 2005)
Education Edit
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.
Oscar van Dillen at a Dutch Wikipedia meeting (2006)
Employment and affiliation Edit
Van Dillen teaches World music composition as well as music theory in the jazz, pop and world music department at the Conservatory of Rotterdam.[1][2][3] He lives in the same city.
He is a member of Componisten 96, a closely restricted[4] association for the promotion of composing in the Netherlands.[5]
He was the first chairperson of the Dutch chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation and among its founders.[3][6] From December 2006 to July 2007 he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.[3][7][8] He is also the vice president of The Netherlands - Turkey Friendship Foundation.
He is a founding member of the Rotterdam School of composers.[9]
