Dillon is an adjunct professor at Cal State LA, and maintains an active private lessons studio. He is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin (BM) and Northwestern University (MM), and he completed a study abroad at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. His primary instructors have been Dr. Nathaniel Brickens, Michael Mulcahy, Douglas Wright, Timothy Higgins, Randall Hawes, Christopher Davis, Niels-Ole Bo Johansen, and Noel Wallace.

Dillon’s performing experiences have taken him around the world and include performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Andrea Bocelli, Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera, Pageant of the Masters, Fresno Philharmonic, Prinsens Musikkorps Military Band, Aarhus Brass Band, and many more. He has won a number of competitions and awards, including various International Trombone Festival competitions, several American Trombone Workshop competitions, Southeast Trombone Symposium Orchestral Excerpts and Solo competitions, the Steven Zellmer Trombone Competition, and Denmark National Brass Competition.