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James Dillon was born on 29 October, 1950 in Glasgow, United Kingdom, is a Scottish composer. Discover James Dillon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?

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Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October 1950
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1950

James Dillon (born 29 October 1950) is a Scottish composer who is 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.

Dillon was born in Glasgow, Scotland.

1978

Honours include first prize in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1978, the Kranichsteiner music prize at Darmstadt in 1982, and five Royal Philharmonic Society composition awards, most recently for his chamber piece Tanz/Haus: triptych 2017.

1982

Dillon taught at Darmstadt from 1982 to 1992, and has been a guest lecturer and composer at various institutions around the world.

From 1982–2000, Dillon worked on the Nine Rivers cycle, a 3-hour work for voices, strings, percussion, live electronics and computer-generated tape.

His music has been published by Edition Peters since 1982.

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1983

His considerable body of chamber music, often written expressly for a performer's individual abilities, includes solos for clarinet, drumkit, cello, flute, piccolo, guitar, violin, viola, and accordion, alongside eight string quartets (1983, 1991, 1998, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2017), the five-part Book of Elements for piano (1997–2002) and the soadie waste for piano and string quartet (2002/3).

1993

His major works include choral and vocal music, including the cycle L'évolution du vol (1993) and the opera Philomela (2004), the orchestral works helle Nacht (1987), ignis noster (1992), Via Sacra (2000), and La navette (2001), as well as a violin concerto for Thomas Zehetmair (2000) and the piano concerto Andromeda (2006) for his partner, Noriko Kawai, all showing an ease of writing for large forces.

1997

He won the same award in 1997 (for Traumwerk, Book 1), 2002 (for The Book of Elements 5), and 2017 (for Tanz/Haus: triptych 2017).

2005

His fourth string quartet received the 2005 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Chamber-Scale Composition.

2007

He taught at the University of Minnesota School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from 2007 to 2014.

2010

The epic work was first performed in full in Glasgow, November 2010.

Andrew Clements of The Guardian awarded it a full five stars, describing the last movement ("Oceanos") as having a "Wagnerian grandeur" and stating, "The cumulative power of [Nine Rivers] is massive, the range of musical experience vast."

2013

In 2013, Tom Service referred to the Book of Elements as "the most significant contribution to the pianist's repertoire since György Ligeti's Études".