Simon’s research interests include Russian music, French modernism, and dance-music relationships.
He has written four books: Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (University of California Press, 2002), The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013), and Bolshoi Confidential (W. W. Norton & Co., 2016). He also edited two collections of essays, Prokofiev and His World (Princeton University Press, 2008) and, with Klára Móricz, Funeral Games (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Professor Simon Morrison is the Director of the Fund for Canadian Studies in the Humanities Council. Read his full biography on the Department of Music website.
