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American composer, sound designer, conductor, and organist Cyril Deaconoff, originally from Russia, was born in Moscow.
His web site is found at www.cyrildeaconoff.com

He attended Gnesine State Music College and is a graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Composition and Conducting). In December 2006, Deaconoff completed his Doctoral degree in Conducting at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also studied composition with Sven-David Sandström. His other composition and orchestration teachers included Marina Kovaleva, Andrei Golovin, Alexander Pirumov, Yuri Butsko, and Roman Ledeniov, and Cindy Cox. Deaconoff’s choral composition Two choruses for children’s voices with Lyrics by Maikov received one of the prizes at the Pushkin Composition Contest in 1998 and was subsequently performed at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, along with a number of his other works.

Recently, Cyril attended San Francisco Conservatory of Music, TAC (Technology and Applied Composition) program, learning media composition, game audio and sound design. Cyril's film score for To Rest in Peace was selected to be recorded at Skywalker Studios, Lucas Films as part of the joint SFFilm/SFCM project.

An active choral/orchestral conductor, Dr. Deaconoff was one of only sixteen conductors chosen by Chorus America to participate in the 2006 Beethoven Conducting Master Class with the Philadelphia Singers and their Music Director David Hayes, and Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoff Eschenbach. Cyril taught at Carroll College, Wisconsin and Indiana University. Several of his recent works, including cantata Canticles of Love, Despair, and Hope; A Northern Tale; and orchestral overture Symphonic Parallels have been recently published by E.C. Schirmer. Audio tracks for these and other works may be found here on MySpace. A recording of Cyril Deaconoff’s most recent work, Gloria, may be found on YouTube.

Other recent conducting projects included a performance of Bach Johannes-Passion with members of Philharmonia Baroque, California Bach Society and other SF Bay area groups. A recording of this performance is soon to be released. Cyril has been invited to perform organ recitals throughout the West Coast of the US. Recently Cyril played the great organ at St. Eustache and St. Marie-Madeleine in Paris where Faure and Saint-Saens were organists.

Dr. Deaconoff’s recent work, String Quartet No.1, was selected by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra for their concert of contemporary music entitled Valley Voices. A concert of Cyril’s chamber instrumental, vocal, and choral music took place in San Francisco on May 25 2008. Dr. Deaconoff received commissions from the Vallejo Choral Society and the Arts Council Silicon Valley. Cyril Deaconoff is currently Artistic Director of the American Canyon Singers, Organist at St. John’s Presbyterian Church in San Francisco and Assistant Conductor of the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale in San Jose.

In November 2011 West Bay Opera in San Francisco Bay area presented a workshop performance of Cyril Deaconoff's new opera, The Last Tycoon, after F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 2018 West Edge Opera, an innovative Bay Area company, presented The Last Tycoon as part of their Snapshot series
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