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Dmitri Smirnov (Дмитрий Николаевич Смирнов) (born 2 November 1948) is a composer. He was born in Minsk into a family of opera singers and he studied at the Moscow Conservatory 1967-72 under Nikolai Sidelnikov Yury Kholopov and Edison Denisov. He also studied with Webern's pupil Philip Herschkowitz. He is married to the composer Elena Firsova. From 1973 to 1980 he was an editor for the publisher Sovetsky Kompozitor. Since then he has pursued a career as a freelance composer. His Solo for Harp won First Prize in a competition in Maastricht (1976). From then on his music has received an increasing number of performances.In 1989 his opera "Tiriel" on a text by William Blake was premiered at the Freiburg, Germany, and its companion piece "Thel" was performed at the Almeida Festival in London. That year his First Symphony ("The Seasons") was performed at the Tanglewood Festival, USA. His orchestral Mozart-Variations were staged as a ballet in Pforzheim in Germany (1992). Other premieres include the oratorio "A Song of Liberty" (Leeds, UK – 1993), Cello Concerto (Manchester, UK – 1996), cantata Song of Songs, (Geneva, Switzerland – 2001) Triple Concerto 2 (LSO, Barbican, London – 2004).

Many of Smirnov's works reflect his fascination with the art and or express his response to Blake's drawings and paintings.

He was one of the founders of Russia's new Association for Contemporary Music, established in Moscow in 1990.

Since 1991 Smirnov have been resident of England. He was a Composer-in-Residence at University of Cambridge (St John's College), at Dartington, and Visiting Professor at Keele University (1993-8). In 1998 Smirnov and his family settled in St Albans. From 2003 he teaches at the Goldsmiths college of Music in London. His work has been performed by the many notable conductors, including: Andrew Davies, Dennis Russel Davies,Peter Eötvös, Oliver Knussen, Vassili Sinaiski, Pavel Kogan, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Gunther Schuller, and Yan Pascal Tortelier. His book "A Geometer of Sound Crystals" (English Edition only) ssm 34 (studia slavica musicologica, vol. 34), ISBN 3-928864-99-8 was published by Ernst Kuhn 2003 (available on Ernst-Kuhn-Verlag@t-online.de)

Scores of selected works are available from various publishers including: Hans Sikorski, Hamburg, Boosey and Hawkes, London, and G. Schirmer Inc., New York.

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