 Van Dijk's "Irish Symphony" (1990) was commissioned for radio broadcast by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Dublin as the European Capital of Culture 1991 and was supported by the Dutch funding body, the Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst.It received its broadcast from the National Concert Hall in Dublin with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colman Pearce on Raidió Teilifís Éireann.The European premiere of "Four Epigrams for Symphony Orchestra" (1962) was given September 25, 1993, with the Residentie Orchestra in The Hague conducted by Jac van Steen.