News
Performance Schedule - updated!
Commissioning Funds for new Dillon works - new!
The Invisible Cities String Quartet Cycle - new!
November 2007:
- Kenan Institute announces LINKS commissioning project, providing funds for individuals/ensembles interested in commissioning new works from Lawrence Dillon. Read about it HERE.
- Dillon’s Telling Tales, an evening of interrelated works, premieres at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Read about it HERE.
- Consortium Commission organized for three new works by Lawrence Dillon in honor of Robert Schumann’s bicentennial (2010): Fantasiestück, The Marriage Diary and Florestan and Eusebius. Read about them HERE.
June 2007:
- Tenth anniversary performance of Furies and Muses at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Ithaca, New York.
- Piotr Szewczyk performs Mister Blister at the Spoleto Festival as part of the Violin Futura project.
April 2007:
Second performance of Singing Silver, with Lawrence Dillon as the speaker and Marilyn Taylor, soprano; David Jolley, horn; Gerald Klickstein, guitar and Grace Anderson, cello at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
March 2007:
Dillon is in residence at Seisen International University in Tokyo, teaching seminars on his music.
February 2007:
- The Music Now Fest '07 has Lawrence Dillon as its guest composer, with performances of six of his works.
- The Mansfield Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Robert Franz, performs Dillon's Wright Flight. Read the review here.
- Lawrence Dillon's Mister Blister is premiered at a New World Symphony Forum concert.
January 2007:
The Idyllwild Orchestra (Ransom Wilson, Music Director) will act as lead party to a consortium commission for two new works by Lawrence Dillon. Read about the consortium commission here.
December 2006:
Jeffrey James Arts Consulting publishes the 2007 edition of Cadenza, the newsletter of composer Lawrence Dillon. Read it HERE.
November 2006:
Lawrence Dillon performs in the premiere of Singing silver with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the new Elebash Recital Hall in New York.
October 2006:
Soprano Wendy Washington-Hunt performs Appendage at the 2006 Shake It Up Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina.
July 2006:
Wright Flight performed seven times as part of the Roanoke Island Festival Park summer arts series.
June 2006:
Amadeus ex machina featured in a performance by the Spoleto Festival Orchestra under the direction of John Kennedy.
May 2006:
What Happened is given its American premiere by the Atlantic Ensemble.
April 2006:
Lawrence Dillon conducts North Carolina premieres of Augusta Read Thomas's Passion Prayers and The Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour as part of the North Carolina School of the Arts Twenty-first Century Residencies.
March 2006:
Amadeus ex machina tours Austria as part of the celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday, with performances in Salzburg, Graz and Vienna.
February 2006:
Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra wins a prize from the International Horn Society.
January 2006:
String Quartet No. 3: Air is premiered by the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Extensive profile featured in the Winston-Salem Journal. Read it here.
December 2005:
Lawrence Dillon is the Featured American Composer in Chamber Music magazine.
November 2005:
Read the Fall 2005 issue of Cadenza, the newsletter of Lawrence Dillon
October 2005:
Sequenza21, featuring Dillon's blog, an infinite number of curves, wins the 2005 ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award
September
2005:
Ukrainian premiere of Furies and Muses, performed by the Maxima Ensemble at the National Philharmonic in Kiev
July 2005:
Minnesota premiere of Amadeus ex machina given by the Lake
Superior Chamber Orchestra
May 2005:
- May 13 - Blown Away premiered by the NCSA Wind Ensemble (James Kalyn, conductor) at the Stevens Center in Winston-Salem, NC.
- May 15 - Processional premiered (by Rebecca Nussbaum, flute and Lawrence Dillon, piano) at Tufts University in Boston, MA.
- May 17 - Sonata: Motion premiered (by Tadeu Coelho, flute and Allison Gagnon, piano) in the music@watson series of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
- May 26 - What Happened for piano quartet premiered at the Maison Danoise in Paris, France.
April 2005:
- Lawrence Dillon conducts the da capo chamber players in a recording session.
- Devotion receives its Ukrainian premiere at the Concert Hall of the House of Science in Kiev.
March 2005:
- Lawrence Dillon, a guest of the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory, meets with composition students and gives a seminar on his music.
- Russian premiere of Amadeus ex machina given by the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic
- Devotion receives its New York City premiere at Lincoln Center's Clark Theater
February 2005:
- Lawrence Dillon's arrangement of Marche triomphale du diable from Igor Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat premiered on music@watson series
- Revenant: Concerto for Horn and Orchestra premiered by David Jolley, with Lawrence Dillon conducting the Carolina Chamber Symphony
- Ransom Wilson and the Hermitage String Quartet give the Russian premiere of Devotion in St. Peterburg
January 2005:
Sequenza21 launches Lawrence Dillon's new blog, "an infinite number of curves": musings on culture, politics, history, art, marketing, psychology and whatever else may come to mind. Read it here.
November 2004:
- Big Brothers for saxophone, vibraphone and piano premiered on the music@watson series.
- The Winston-Salem Symphony gives several performances of Snegglish Dances on its education series.
May 2004:
Dillon's Adytum is awarded a grant by the American Music Center.
April 2004:
Dillon one of five finalists in a competition to receive the 2005 Utah Arts Festival Composers Commission.
February 2004:
"Adytum" premiered in Weill Recital Hall by flutist Renee Siebert and the American String Quartet.
January 2004:
Lawrence Dillon's "Devotion" featured in a performance by the Contemporary Music Consortium of Salt Lake City.
December
2003:
Dillon's "Wright Flight" is the featured work in the Wright Brothers' Centennial Celebration at Kitty Hawk. The 500 guests at the performance include astronaut Neil Armstrong, actor Andy Griffith, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, and several members of the Wright family.
November
2003:
The Daedalus String Quartet, Grand Prize Winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, premiere Lawrence Dillon's String Quartet No. 2: Flight in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
October 2003:
Lawrence Dillon commissioned to write a concerto for hornist David Jolley, to be premiered at the 2005 International Horn Society convention.
September 2003:
Lawrence Dillon featured on the website of the American Music Center, in the "Hymn and Fuguing" section.
July 2003:
Wright Flight premiered at Roanoke Island Festival Park.
June 2003:
New work commissioned by flutist Renee Siebert (of the NY Philharmonic) and the American String Quartet, to be premiered at Weill Recital Hall on February 8, 2004.
May 2003:
Lawrence Dillon appointed Dean of Music at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
April 2003:
Lawrence Dillon conducts Speculum Musicae in premiere and recording session.
March 2003:
Daedalus String Quartet, Grand Prize Winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, to premiere Lawrence Dillon’s String Quartet No. 2: Flight on 2003-04 tour
February 2003:
Amadeus ex Machina awarded a special commendation by the
Masterprize panel of judges in London.
December 2002:
Lawrence Dillon commissioned by the 2003 Illuminations Festival
to compose a multimedia work to commemorate the centennial of the Wright
Brothers' first flight. The work, entitled Wright Flight, will
be scored
for orchestra and 3 narrators, with projected images of photographs taken
by the Wright Brothers. The text is taken from the Wrights' letters and
journal entries.
September 2002:
Lawrence Dillon's Amadeus ex Machina chosen as contemporary
competition piece for the 2002 Vakhtang Jordania International
Conducting Competition, Kharkov, Ukraine
July 2002:
Chamber Music of Lawrence Dillon released on Albany Records
Works performed by:
Ransom Wilson, Flute
Jeff Keesecker, Bassoon
Cassatt String Quartet
Borromeo String Quartet
Mendelssohn String Quartet
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| Lawrence Dillon performing the premiere of Singing silver with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the new Elebash Recital Hall in New York. |
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| Lawrence Dillon presides over a composition seminar at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory |
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| Lawrence Dillon and the Daedalus String Quartet after the premiere of "String Quartet No. 2: Flight." |
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| None of the music on this disc is dry or academic; the CD repays frequent listening. These works ought to be given repeated live performances. It would be wonderful if all new music received such meticulous care as these three quartets and the soloists invest in Dillon's scores. It would be wonderful, too, if all new music were as worthy of such attention as these three compositions! |
| - William Thomas Walker, CVNC |
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