Born in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 1958; Oscar van Dillen is a composer, flautist, conductor and visual artist. From 1977 to 1980 he studied North Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev in Berkeley, from 1982 to 1984 classical and jazz flute at the Sweelinck Conservatorium Amsterdam and composition with Misha Mengelberg, and from 1985 to 1989 music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance with Paul Van Nevel in Leuven. He then studied composition at the Royal Conservatory The Hague (1990–1991), at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1996–2002) and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf (2001). Since 1997 he has taught composition, arrangement, world music, music history and theory at the Codarts University for the Arts in Rotterdam. He founded the Olduvai Ensemble for his world music compositions and is its artistic director; he was also founding president of Wikimedia Nederland. Cybele Records released his portrait album de Stad in 2003; in the same year he is represented as a composer on The Untempered Piano.
Oscar van Dillen
Composer / Flute / Conductor
