Works and Projects
On February 22, 2008 his work Paradox - Music for a Sculpture was performed at the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.
On November 21, 2008 his *2 Cameras @ Sea (2008) premiered at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam during SHIFT, the Canadian and Dutch Arts Festival. Van Dillen composed the music for the Canadian ensemble "Continuum Contemporary Music".
In April 2009 Continuum Contemporary Music of Toronto premiered 2 Cameras @ Sea, a collaboration between Oscar van Dillen and Canadian filmmaker Clive Holden, commissioned by the Canada Council for the Arts. The performance took place at the Images Festival in Toronto, and was repeated in Amsterdam.
Also in 2009, Original Winds from Breda performed his ballet music in an extended series of music and dance performances in Rotterdam.
Van Dillen wrote Objet Privé, for solo cello, and Forecast, for violin, cello and bayan for cellist John Addison who also has one of the string quartets on his repertoire list.
Doelenkwartet premiered both of his string quartets and continue to play them regularly.
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