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NEWS AND INTERVIEWS
Two extensive articles on Lawrence Dillon were published in 2006. In January, he was the subject of a substantial feature by Ken Keuffel, music critic of the Winston-Salem Journal, which began, "There are more than a few things you might want to know about Lawrence Dillon." The entire article, written on the occasion of the premiere of the third string quartet, can be read online here.
And in February Dillon was the Featured American Composer in Chamber Music Magazine, in which critic Kyle Gann cited his "impatience with battles of musical aesthetics in which one side of the coin fights the other for dominance," and music "as finely poised between tonality and atonality as anyone's I could name." You can read the complete article here.
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REVENANT
REAPS REWARDS
 In February 2006, the International Horn Society announced its awards for 2005. One of the top prizes went to Lawrence Dillon for his horn concerto, Revenant. The piece was premiered a year earlier by hornist David Jolley along with the Carolina Chamber Symphony under the baton of the composer. The three movements - Resonance, Revenant and Revelry - trace a journey from despair through introspection to joy. To read more about Revenant, and hear an excerpt of the premiere performance, visit here.
FESTIVAL SPOLETO
Lawrence Dillon was a guest of the Spoleto Festival (http://www.spoletousa.org/) in June, when the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, under the baton of John Kennedy, performed Amadeus ex machina to a packed house in Charleston, South Carolina. The Charleston Post-Courier cited it as the highlight of the concert, saying "the passionate music the small orchestra produced under Kennedy's direction seemed strikingly original and not at all Mozartian. Mr. Dillon was in
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