page_title: Denis Mickiewicz
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Denis Mickiewicz / Professional career
caption_attribution_description: English: Denis Mickiewicz conducting a concert of the Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus at Duke University in October 2005. This photo was part of a batch of publicity photos commissioned by the YRC to cover the Duke 2005 concert
context_page_description: Denis Mickiewicz [pron: ] is Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Duke University and the founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus.
context_section_description: Mickiewicz taught Russian and Comparative literature at Connecticut College, Michigan State University, Emory University and finally  Duke University, acting as Chairman of his department at both Emory and Duke.  He maintained his musical activities, co-founding the Lansing Opera Company in Michigan, and steadfastly retained his links with the Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus, returning regularly to lead alumni concerts, including the 25th Anniversary concert in Carnegie Hall in 1978, the 50th Anniversary concert in Woolsey Hall at Yale University in 2003, the 60th Anniversary concert in Woolsey Hall at Yale University in 2013, as well as concerts in Duke Chapel at Duke University in 2005 and 2009.
  While publishing research on modernist poetics, Mickiewicz also returned to composing music.  His Duo for Clarinet and Piano was premiered in Atlanta in 1989, and he wrote the choral and incidental music for a production of Euripides’ Hecuba presented at Emory University.  His setting of The Lord’s Prayer was premiered and recorded by the Chamber Choir of Washington University in St. Louis in 2000.  In 2003, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary Concert of the Yale Russian Chorus in Woolsey Hall at Yale, Mickiewicz was awarded the Yale Music School's Cultural Leadership Citation for his extraordinary service to Yale and the international music community. In 2004, he was presented with the Russian Federation's Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg" at the Russian Embassy in Washington DC for his contribution in the field of American-Russian cultural relations, particularly for teaching, performing and presenting Russian music. Most recently, he set to music for baritone and piano the verse of the Russian Symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov.  It was performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2002.   His scholarly research on Ivanov has been published in Rome and St. Petersburg.
caption: Denis Mickiewicz conducting the Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus in a concert at Duke University in October 2005
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