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About Simon Morrison

Simon Morrison is Associate Professor of Music at Princeton University, where he teaches courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, with an emphasis on Russia and France. He is the author of Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (2002), the forthcoming author of Prokofiev's Soviet Years, and the forthcoming editor of the Bard Music Festival volume Prokofiev and His World. His other publications include essays on Ravel (the ballet Daphnis et Chloé), Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich (the ballet The Bolt), and numerous reviews and shorter articles, including pieces for the New York Times. In 2005 Morrison oversaw the recreation of the Prokofiev ballet Le Pas d'Acier at Princeton University, and in 2007 he co-produced a world premiere staging of Alexander Pushkin's drama Boris Godunov featuring Prokofiev's incidental music and Vsevolod Meyerhold's directorial concepts. Morrison's distinctions include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1999), an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2001), and a Phi Beta Kappa Society Teacher Award (2006). He has conducted archival research in Moscow (extensively), St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Paris, and London.