Born in Wellington New Zealand, Dylan holds degrees in Guitar performance, and Composition from Victoria University Wellington. He has studied in Venice, and has held a DAAD stipend 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 and 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, and a virtual partner residency award through the Goethe Institut. 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, Tosiya Suzuki, Nanae Yoshimura, Ensemble Vortex, the NZtrio, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Klangrauschen, and members of Ensemble Modern.
His pieces have been programmed in the Gaudeamus music week in 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 Takefu International Music Festival.
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, is a strong advocate of New Zealand music through commissioning and programming, and is an associate artist with the Bendigo International Festival of Contemporary Music (BIFEM)
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, and a virtual partner residency award through the Goethe Institut. 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, Tosiya Suzuki, Nanae Yoshimura, Ensemble Vortex, the NZtrio, Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Klangrauschen, and members of Ensemble Modern.
His pieces have been programmed in the Gaudeamus music week in 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 Takefu International Music Festival.
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, is a strong advocate of New Zealand music through commissioning and programming, and is an associate artist with the Bendigo International Festival of Contemporary Music (BIFEM)
