Colin Pip Dixon – Past Concerts

Originally from NYC, composer, violinist & actor Colin Pip Dixon lived and worked in Paris, France for many years. Upon returning to NYC he produced, composed music, and performed in His Majesty, the Devil – a play with music at 59E59 Theaters, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2013) and FringeNYC (2014). As a violinist, he has performed throughout France, as well as in Brussels, Geneva, London, Turin, Yerevan (Armenia), Montreal, Beirut, Boston, and New York. For many years he has composed and performed, both on stage and off, with the French theater company Théâtre de l'Arc-en-Ciel. His compositions include: Invocation (soprano, violin & viola), Chekhov Triptych, Suite Khamush, (based on the poetry of Rumi), I Have a Dream (soprano & string trio based on Martin Luther King Jr.), The Velveteen Rabbit (orchestra & narrator), as well as more classic forms including a sonata for violin & piano (The Bells) and a trio for violin, viola & piano. Music for theater includes: Etty Hillesum (toured France, Switzerland, Quebec and Belgium), The Tolstoy Diaries (Paris, Lyon), La Première Seconde (Paris). As a musician/actor: The Cherry Orchard, Primo Levi, Pinocchio (marionettes), Dancing Color Box (circus show), Cyrano de Bergerac (at Unesco). His compositions have received grants from the French institutions SACEM & SPEDIDAM, and he was part the Artward Bound residency (The Field 2015). In 2010 he was invited to perform Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata at Les Invalides, Paris in honor of the 100th anniversary of Leo Tolstoy's death. …in God's Flower Garden (his book of short stories) was published by Pocol Press (2006) and during the past two years he has written music, lyrics and book for a musical: Underground. His violin teachers have included Barbara Krakauer, Carol Stein Amado and Patricia Reibaud; he has a BA in music from Haverford College and was a musician/scholar on full scholarship at the European Mozart Academy in Poland. Since arriving in Oregon he has played in the Eugene Symphony and with Harmonic Laboratory's production of Tesla: Light, Sound & Color.