Biography
Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tūhoe
Born in Wellington New Zealand, Dylan holds degrees in Guitar performance, and Composition from Victoria University Wellington. He has studied in Venice with Stefano Bellon, and has held a DAAD stipend to study with Dieter Mack at the Lübeck Musikhochshule in Germany. Dylan has held an artistic research residency at the Tokyo Wonder Site, to work with the use of Japanese instruments in contemporary music, and a composer residency at Kulturkontakt Vienna. In 2018 and 2019 Dylan was the Mozart Fellow at Otago University in Dunedin.
Dylan has been the recipient of many scholarships and awards including the award of first place with his piece Four Fragments in the Asian Composers League Young Composers’ Competition in Tokyo, and has received the APRA AMCOS Art Music Fund award. Dylan's music has been performed throughout New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Asia and North America, by musicians such as Lucas Vis, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Horomona Horo (Taonga pūoro), Tosiya Suzuki, Ensemble Vortex Geneva, the NZ Trio, Klangforum Wien Vienna, Phace Vienna, Musikfabrik Cologne, Ensemble Klangrauschen, and members of Ensemble Modern.
Dylan's work explores aspects of memory, physicality and gesture, and have been programmed in the Gaudeamus music week Amsterdam, the Darmstadt New Music Festival, the New Zealand Arts Festival, the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music, Metropolis Festival Melbourne, OutHear New Music Week Greece, and the Takefu International Music Festival, and most recently at festivals in Bangkok, Ljubljana, Valencia, Trieste, Lübeck, Christchurch, and Auckland.
As a Guitarist Dylan has performed with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Stroma contemporary music ensemble, 175 East new music ensemble, and also in Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Australia, Austria, Hungary, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Dylan has recorded numerous New Zealand Compositions and is a strong advocate of New Zealand music through commissioning and programming.
His first solo CD Two Bells produced by Rattle was released in 2023: https://rattle.co.nz/catalogue/releases/two-bells
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for tenor recorder, electric guitar, percussion, violin, cello and double bass, 13m
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Performances (2)
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