James Dillon

First performance, 7 March 2005 at the festival Musica Nova Helsinki, Quatuor Diotima Commissioned by the Festival Archipel Geneva in partnership with the Helsinki Festival for the Quatuor Diotima. Th...

First performed September 1992, Brussels by Garth Knox. Commissioned by Musica Libera (Brussels)

Commissioned by the Cologne Philharmonic Society. First performed April 1999, International Bach Festival, Cologne by Rohan de Saram

First performed April 1983, South Bank Centre, London by Roger Heaton.

L'évolution du vol is a small cycle of songs and instrumental works for soloists or small ensembles. The work exploits the double theme of 'flight' and 'theft' enjoined in the French vol. The text, wh...

First performed November 2001 by David Alberman and Jane Chapman. Commissioned by Tage fur Neue Musik Zurich.

Libretto by the composer First performance 18 September 2004, Porto, by Remix Ensemble, Anu Komsi (Philomela), Susan Narucki (Procne), Lionel Peintre (Tereus), Jurjen Hempel (conductor).

First performed August 1997, Edinburgh Festival by Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Commissioned by Radio France. Part 3 of a 'German' triptych...

First performed July 1992, Royal Albert Hall London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Lazerev. Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the 1992 Promenade Concerts

First performed March 2000, Ars Musica Brussels, by Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxeumbourg conducted by Patrick Davin. Commissioned by the Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles

First performed November 1995, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by Laurence Cornez and Sachiko Yoshida (Le Bureau des Pianistes), Commissioned by Musica Libera (Brussels)

First performed April 1981, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham by John Potter

Lament (‘Ae, fareweel, and then forever’), composed by James Dillon for piano solo in digital sheet music format [EP73743].

First performed November 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by Noriko Kawai.

Composed 1997-2002, one of the major piano works of our time. The Book of Elements Vol. 5 was awarded the 2003 Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber-scale Composition.

First performed January 1983, Bloomsbury Theatre, London by Linda Hirst and Kevin Rundell.

First performed October 1985, Festival d'Automne, Paris by Ensemble Alternance conducted by Luca Pfaff. Commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation

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First performed April 1989, Oslo by Oslo Sinfonietta conducted by Christian Eggen. Part 2 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

First performed June 1989, Almeida Festival, London by Music Projects/London conducted by Richard Bernas. Commissioned by the Holst Foundation and Greater London Arts. Part 4 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

First performance January 1991, Glasgow, Paragon Ensemble conducted by David Davies. Commissioned by the City of Glasgow and Scottish Arts Council. Part 6 of the Nine Rivers Cycle.

Pierre Boulez zu seinem 65. Geburtstag.

First complete performance December 1993, Antwerp by Hilde Torgesen and Ensemble Champ d'Action. Commissioned by 'Antwerpen 1993' for the ensembles Accroche-Note and Champ d'Action 1. La pensée rêveri...

First performed January 1993, Rotterdam by Irvine Arditti and the Nieuw Ensemble conducted by Ed Spanjaard. Commissioned by the Nieuw Ensemble

First performance: October 1996, Musica '96, Strasbourg - A. Angster, M. Kanno and Y. Sugawara (Ensemble Accroche-Note). Commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture