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About the composer

Alissa Firsova, born in , is a Russian-British classical composer, pianist and conductor. Born in Moscow into a family of composers (Elena Firsova and Dmitri Smirnov), she moved to the UK in  In she won the BBC/Guardian/Proms Young Composer Competition with her piano piece “Les Pavots”.

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She graduated from Purcell School as a composer and pianist in , and Royal Academy of Music as a pianist in , where she also developed her conducting studies with Paul Brough. In she entered the Conducting Postgraduate Course in Royal Academy of Music under the tuition of Colin Metters.
Her piano teachers included Tatiana Kantorovich, Valéria Szervánszky, James Gibb, Simon Mulligan, Hamish Milne, Ian Fountain, and Stephen Kovacevich.

Among her composition teachers were Jeoffrey Sharkey, Richard Dubugnon, Jonathan Cole and Simon Speare. She also participated in workshops and master classes with composers Nicholas Maw, Simon Holt, Anthony Gilbert, David Bedford, David Matt Alissa Firsova - Firsova - The ultimate Stabat Mater site TITUT