Lawrence Dillon@Sequenza21.com

"There are no two points so distant from one another that they cannot be connected by a single straight line -- and an infinite number of curves."

Composer Lawrence Dillon has produced an extensive body of work, from brief solo pieces to a full-length opera. Partially deaf from birth, Dillon grew up in a bustling household with seven older siblings. He began composing as soon as he started piano lessons at the age of seven. In 1985, he became the youngest composer to earn a doctorate at The Juilliard School, and was shortly thereafter appointed to the Juilliard faculty. Dillon is now Composer in Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he has served as Music Director of the Contemporary Ensemble, Assistant Dean of Performance and Dean of the School of Music.

Dillon's music, in the words of American Record Guide, is "lovely...austere...vivid and impressive." His works are recorded by Albany Records, Channel Crossings and CRS, and published by American Composers Editions. He is represented by Jeffrey James Arts Consulting.


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Friday, May 13, 2005
On the Run

Too much to talk about today, and too little time. Tonight the NCSA Wind Ensemble will premiere my Blown Away, which I wrote about here. Unfortunately, I won’t be there to hear it, because I’m heading up to Boston to premiere my Processional for flute and piano with my wife, flutist Rebecca Nussbaum, at Tufts University’s Goddard Chapel on Sunday.


Rebecca Nussbaum

Wednesday night I heard a Jerry Bowles Birthday Concert -- well, at least it was in North Carolina, included some Shostakovich and a premiere -- but no fried chicken or Puligny Montrachet. The program featured Russian pianist Denis Plutalov playing Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Liszt’s antepostmodern Variations on a Theme of J.S. Bach, and the premiere of the four-movement version of William Robert Stevens’s Insomnia. Hope we didn’t keep you up all night, Jerry.

But I really want to talk about the concert I heard last night. The Carolina Chamber Symphony played at Wake Forest University’s Brendle Hall, an amazing program of Beethoven, Barber and Russell Peck.

Unfortunately, I’ve got a plane to catch, so it will have to wait.