About Bill Dixon

Bill Dixon

Photograph by: Luigi Zanon

ORGANIZER & PRODUCER:	October Revolution in Jazz New York City; 1964
ARCHITECT:	*Jazz Composers' Guild* (for the performance of contemporary American Black Music) New York City; 1964
FOUNDER:	Free Conservatory of the University of the Streets New York City; 1967-68
FACULTY MEMBER:	*Bennington College* Bennington, Vermont; 1968-96
VISITING PROFESSOR OF MUSIC:	*University of Wisconsin* Madison, Wisconsin; 1971-72
CREATOR:	*Black Music Division Bennington College* Bennington, Vermont; 1973
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR:	*Jazz Magazine* Paris, France; 1976
GIANCARLO TESTONI AWARD:	The Discographical Society for Best Recordings of the Year Milan, Italy; 1981
FILM:	Imagine the Sound (one of four principals featured in a 90-minute documentary film on the avant-garde music of the '60s) Toronto, Canada; 1981
BMI JAZZ PIONEER AWARD:	Broadcast Music, Inc. New York City; 1984
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR IN THE ARTS:	Middlebury College Middlebury, Vermont; 1986
FELLOW:	Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences; elected 1988

WORKSHOPS & MASTER CLASSES

ORCHESTRA MASTER CLASS:	In Performance New York City; 1967-86
ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP:	In Composition and Performance Paris, France; 1974
TRUMPET WORKSHOP:	Techniques Vienna, Austria; 1985
ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP:	In Composition, Improvisation and Performance Vienna, Austria; 1985
STRING ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP:	In Improvisation and Performance Furth, Germany; 1990
ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP:	In Performance and Improvisation Jerusalem, Israel; 1990
ENSEMBLE WORKSHOP:	In Performance Pori, Finland; 1991
MASTER CLASS:	In Performance and Improvisation Lyon, France; 1994
ORCHESTRA WORKSHOP:	In Composition, Improvisation and Performance New York City; 1996

LISTED IN

• Who's Who in America
• Who's Who Among Black Americans
• The International Who's Who in Education; 2nd ed.
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
• The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
• Jazz: the Essential Companion
• The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
• Biographical Dictionary of Black Musicians and Music Educators
• Biographical Dictionary of Jazz
• Biographical Dictionary of American Music
• Who's Who in Entertainment
• Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians
• The Penguin Guide to Jazz
• Dictionaire du Jazz
• Grand Encyclopedia of Jazz
• The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties
• Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990
• Jazz: the Rough Guide
• The Guinness Who's Who of Jazz; 2nd ed.

Bill Dixon is a Trademarked name
For further information: wrdixon@sover.net Fax: (802) 442-4509
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 215 North Bennington, VT 05257-0215