Fannie Charles Dillon

Fannie Charles Dillon (March 16, 1881 – February 21, 1947) was an American pianist, music educator and composer.

She graduated from Pomona College[1] and studied composition with Heinrich Urban, Hugo Kaun and Rubin Goldmark, and piano with Leopold Godowsky in Berlin.

[2] After completing her studies, Dillon worked as a pianist, teacher, performer and composer in Los Angeles.

She founded Woodland Theater at Fawnskin, Big Bear Lake, California, in 1924 and served as its general manager from 1926 to 1929.

While she was teaching at Los Angeles High School in the late 1920s, future composer John Cage was among her students.