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PAUL DICKINSON (b. 1965)

Paul Dickinson was born in 1965 in Illinois and grew up in Oregon. He began his musical studies on piano at age eleven, and in composition with Tomas Svoboda at age twelve. In the summers of 1981 and 1982 he attended the composition program of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He continued his studies with Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, and Allan Schindler at the Eastman School of Music and received the Bachelor of Music degree in 1987, graduating 'with distinction'. He then enrolled at Northwestern University, received a Master of Music degree in 1988 and a Doctor of Music degree in 1995 studying with Alan Stout, Stephen Syverud and Lynden DeYoung. While at Northwestern he was elected to the honorary music society, Pi Kappa Lambda.

In 1997 Dickinson received a Grant from the Arkansas Arts Council for outstanding achievement in music composition. His other honors and awards include a BMI Award in 1990 for his Symphony for Wind Ensemble, and a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) to study Composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, 1992-1993. He has received several commissions, and has had performances of his works throughout the US, and in Germany.

Paul Dickinson is now Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Central Arkansas.

WORKS

Percussion
Variations on a Theme by Paganini (solo marimba)