Paul Dickinson
Associate Professor of Music
office: SFAC 302
phone: 501-450-3242
email: pauld@uca.edu
Personal Web: http://faculty.uca.edu/~pauld
teaching specialties: Composition, Music Theory, Counterpoint,
Orchestration, Intro to Music Technology
DMA Northwestern University
MM Northwestern University
BM Eastman School of Music
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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 Associate Professor of Music
Theory and Composition at the University of Central
Arkansas.
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