is a composer who creates music which offers ecstatic, transformative experience and provides an opportunity to alter the way we see our world and place within it. Many of Dylan’s projects exist on a massive scale, the results of a dedication to the pursuit of bringing to life the most meaningful projects in the wild reaches of imagination — wherever that path leads. Dylan’s music has been described as "a historic triumph of aspiration" by the San Francisco Chronicle, "singular, tender, euphoric, hypnotic" and "a kind of communal love to the cosmos" by The New York Times, "transfixing, sublime, and ecstatic" by San Francisco Classical Voice, "the most poignantly entrancing passages of beautiful music in recent memory” by LA Weekly, and "the glistening sounds of heaven ... able to capture the totality of human experience" and "inviting us to let go of all of our inhibitions and to feel everything we are capable of ever feeling" by NewClassic LA. Dylan’s ecstatic 6-hour opera Stranger Love, which was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and premiered on May 20, 2023 at Walt Disney Concert Hall, was listed by The New York Times as one of the "Best Classical Music Performances of 2023." Dylan is the Executive and Co-artistic Director of the NYC-based new-music ensemble Contemporaneous, where much of his work focuses on creating an opportunity for other composers to follow their own wildest dreams. Dylan’s music has been commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Ojai Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and many others. He holds a B.A. in Classics from Bard College, a B.M. in Music Composition from the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music.