Dmitri Smirnov (composer)
His Solo for Harp won First Prize in a competition in Maastricht (1976). His two operas  Tiriel and Thel on a text by William Blake  were premiered in 1989. He was a Composer-in-Residence at University of Cambridge (St John's College), at Dartington, and Visiting Professor at Keele University (1993–8).