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'''Oscar van Dillen''' (
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©Oscar van Dillen - my tree of musical knowledge and teachings, of teachers and students (incomplete): [[File:Tree of musical knowledge.jpg|center|800px|Tree of knowledge (incomplete)]]
. Van Dillen is composer and performer of music, as well as Professor of Music at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam. A polyglot and an erudite world citizen, he is also one of the pioneers from the early years of Wikipedia, having been founding president of Wikimedia Nederland and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
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==Biographies==
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===Latest long biography===
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'''Oscar van Dillen''' (
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His music education having started at the age of 7, and performing both classical and rock music in his youth, van Dillen first studied North-Indian classical music from 1977 to 1980 (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. Next he studied classical and jazz flute at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam between 1982 and 1984. Here, he also received composition lessons from Misha Mengelberg. As a flutist, he was taught by Lens Derogée and Dieks Visser, and followed masterclasses from Pierre-Yves Artaud, Geoffrey Gilbert and Barthold Kuijken.
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After parttime studies of medieval and Renaissance music with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven (Belgium) between 1985 and 1989, he studied classical and contemporary composition fulltime with, among others, Dick Raaymakers, Diderik Wagenaar and Gilius van Bergeijk at the Koninklijk Conservatory in The Hague in 1990-91, with Klaas de Vries, Peter-Jan Wagemans and René Uijlenhoet at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1996 to 2002 and with Manfred Trojahn at the Robert Schumann College in Düsseldorf in 2001, where he also received lessons in conducting from Lutz Herbig. As a composer he furthermore followed masterclasses from, among others, Isang Yun, George Crumb, Jan van Vlijmen, Marek Stachowski, Zbigniew Bojarski and Gerard Brophy.
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Van Dillen is professor of music at the Conservatory of Rotterdam since 1997, also called Codarts University of the Arts. He teaches composing, arranging, as well as world music composition and music theory in the Jazz-, Pop- and World Music Academies. He is founder, composer and artistic director of the [http://www.olduvai-ensemble.com Olduvai Ensemble].
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'''Oscar van Dillen''' ('s-Hertogenbosch 1958) studied a wide variety of musical traditions with many renowned teachers
©Oscar van Dillen - my tree of musical knowledge and teachings, of teachers and students (incomplete): [[File:Tree of musical knowledge.jpg|center|800px|Tree of knowledge (incomplete)]]
. Van Dillen is composer and performer of music, as well as Professor of Music at Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam
The Codarts website can be found at [http://www.codarts.nl www.codarts.nl]
. A polyglot and an erudite world citizen, he is also one of the pioneers from the early years of Wikipedia, having been founding president of Wikimedia Nederland
[http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oprichtingsbestuur Founding board] of Wikimedia Nederland
and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc.
Former memebers of the board of trustees of the [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Former_Board_of_Trustees_members#Oscar_van_Dillen Wikimedia Foundation], the organisation behind Wikipedia.
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===Statement (2010)=
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Ever since I graduated april 2002 in classical composition, with the composition (including live video-projection) [[Memos for a new Millennium]] for Disklavier with player which was part of my final exam portfolio, I have been finding ways to work with artists in different disciplines: museal theater, sculpture, 3D live animation, fashion design, animation movie, video installation, as well as a new string quartet to Joris Ivens' film “De Brug” from 1928. Since 2006 I have regularly worked with Canadian poet, artist and filmmaker Clive Holden, on various projects: films, surround-sound video-installations and web-based art, all aiming at an equality between sound and vision. Many times it was the music which inspired a project, as was the case in the animation film Forecast were the music was conceived and composed as the actual story-teller to the storyboard before the actual visuals were created. Works were commissioned by various institutions.
Ever since I graduated april 2002 in classical composition, with the composition (including live video-projection) [[Memos for a new Millennium]] for Disklavier with player which was part of my final exam portfolio, I have been finding ways to work with artists in different disciplines: museal theater, sculpture, 3D live animation, fashion design, animation movie, video installation, as well as a new string quartet to Joris Ivens' film “De Brug” from 1928. Since 2006 I have regularly worked with Canadian poet, artist and filmmaker Clive Holden, on various projects: films, surround-sound video-installations and web-based art, all aiming at an equality between sound and vision. Many times it was the music which inspired a project, as was the case in the animation film Forecast were the music was conceived and composed as the actual story-teller to the storyboard before the actual visuals were created. Works were commissioned by various institutions.
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[[User:Oscar van Dillen|Oscar van Dillen]]
[[User:Oscar van Dillen|Oscar van Dillen]]
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''This page below will collect
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With specialist studies in Classical North Indian and Medieval music since 1977, as well as training in Jazz, World- and Classical Western music, theory and composition, Rotterdam composer Oscar van Dillen (*1958) has a very broad background from which to draw, both in his works and as a professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts. With Mathematics and Architecture among his other studies, he can be regarded as a specialist with a universalist background. He was recommended as "a knowledgeable polyglot, and a philantropic world citizen", as he served on the international board of directors of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia.
With specialist studies in Classical North Indian and Medieval music since 1977, as well as training in Jazz, World- and Classical Western music, theory and composition, Rotterdam composer Oscar van Dillen (*1958) has a very broad background from which to draw, both in his works and as a professor of music at Codarts University for the Arts. With Mathematics and Architecture among his other studies, he can be regarded as a specialist with a universalist background. He was recommended as "a knowledgeable polyglot, and a philantropic world citizen", as he served on the international board of directors of Wikimedia, the foundation behind Wikipedia.
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''(September 2008 - 217 words)''
''(September 2008 - 217 words)''
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==Compositions by Oscar van Dillen==
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See [[scores]] for currently available compositions on this website.
==Articles by Oscar van Dillen==
==Articles by Oscar van Dillen==