Dmitriy Yanov-Yanovsky

Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky has produced a distinguished and culturally unique body of work
characterised by merging musical influences from his native Central Asia with postmodernist styles
from Russia and Eastern Europe. His music has been commissioned and performed by leading
musicians and musical organisations including Yo-Yo Ma, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, North
Carolina Symphony, Kronos Quartet, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the New Juilliard Ensemble.
Yanov-Yanovsky was a composer-in-residence at Harvard University and also taught music
composition at Dartmouth College. His music has been recognised internationally through prizes
and awards, recordings, and performances in prestigious concert venues. Yanov-Yanovsky is also a
prolific composer of film soundtracks. From 1996—2006, he served as artistic director of the
International Contemporary Music Festival Ilkhom, in Tashkent, the only festival of its kind in
Central Asia.

The multimedia production Qyrq Qyz (Forty Girls), whose world premiere took place at Dartmouth
College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts on 1 March, 2018. Following performances at Dartmouth,

Qyrq Qyz travelled to other venues in the northeastern United States before winding up a month-
long USA tour at the prestigious Brooklyn Academy of Music on 23-24 March.

Conceived and directed by award-winning Uzbek filmmaker Saodat Ismailova with a musical
score composed and arranged by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, one of Central Asia’ most
internationally visible and acclaimed artists, Qyrq Qyz is based on a monumental yet little-known
Central Asian epic that celebrates powerful women and women’s power through the exploits of an
intrepid young band of “Amazons of the steppe.” The new production brings together film and live
music performed by some of the boldest talents in a rising generation of charismatic female bards
from Kazakhstan, Karakalpakstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

From September 4th to 8th, 2023, a new exhibition titled "Abu Rayhan Beruni: Geographical
and Intellectual Journeys" took place at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The project was
timed to coincide with the 1050th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished scholar and thinker.
Thanks to the visual elements of the scenography and multimedia installations, as well as the
displayed manuscript copies, visitors to the exhibition will be able to familiarize themselves with
the life and work of Abu Rayhan Beruni. They learned about his travels, discoveries, and research
that largely shaped the development of medieval science and remain relevant to this day.
As part of the grand opening ceremony of the exhibition, a concert was held during which the
National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, under the direction of Alibek Kabdurakhmanov,
presented the world premiere of Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky's composition "Zij — Music of
Constellations."