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Simon Morrison is a music historian specializing in 20th-century music, particularly Russian and Soviet music, with special interests in dance, film, and historically informed performance based on extensive archival research. He is a leading authority on composer Sergey Prokofiev and has received unprecedented access to the composer's papers, housed in Moscow at RGALI. Morrison received his B.Mus. from the University of Toronto, a Master's in Musicology from McGill University, and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where he is Professor of Music. His distinctions include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a Phi Beta Kappa Society Teacher Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Morrison is author of The People's Artist: Prokofiev's Soviet Years as well as Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement. As Scholar-in-Residence for the 2008 Bard Music Festival, he edited the essay collection Sergey Prokofiev and His World. Among his other publications are essays on Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé, Rimsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Shostakovich's ballet The Bolt, numerous reviews and shorter articles, including pieces for the New York Times, New York Review of Books, and London Review of Books.
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