biography - Grigory Smirnov, composer

Biography

Grigory Smirnov

composer & pianist

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Originally from Siberia, Grigory Smirnov is a New York-based composer of chamber, orchestral and electro-acoustic music and a pianist, actively performing classical, contemporary and improvisational music. Working mainly in a contemporary classical idiom, he tends to combine a new lyricism with modern rhythms in his compositions and performances.

Grigory Smirnov's music was recently featured at Tanglewood Music Center 2011 concerts where he was in residence as a Composition Fellow. Among his recent premieres was Romance for English horn and orchestra, performed by Hassan Anderson and The Juilliard Orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Milarsky at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, 2011. His new collaborative work with choreography “this happens” premiered at Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater in December of 2010.

Born in Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), Grigory Smirnov received the Master of Music degree in composition at The Juilliard School where he studied with one of America's most prominent composers Christopher Rouse. Before coming to the United States, he studied at the Novosibirsk State Conservatory, with the distinguished Siberian composer Yuri Yukechev, and at the Novosibirsk Music College. During his studies in Russia, he was a prizewinner of the prestigious Prokofiev International Composition Competition and was involved into a number of collaborative projects internationally.