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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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Signifying Everything

One of my all-time favorites, William Faulkner, is getting a boost from Oprah Winfrey these days. Of course, some of us are far enough out of the mainstream to have heard the news via Greg Sandow. But composers are talking about it on the Forum page. I’ll just use this space to share two of my favorite Faulknerisms:

“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”