Dmitri’s music has won numerous prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Hugh F. MacColl Prizes from Harvard University, and the Eisner and DeLorenzo prizes from the University of California, Berkeley. He has received fellowships from Tanglewood, the Ernest Bloch festival, the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory, and has been the composer in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and was awarded the Arthur Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton University. His music has been performed and by the Brentano Quartet, the Pacifica Quartet, Ursula Oppens, the Network for New Music, the Synergy Vocal Ensemble, the Gregg Smith Singers, the Janus Trio, the Cleveland Contemporary Youth Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Players, and others. In addition to composing concert music, Dmitri enjoys playing rock and jazz.
Dmitri’s writing has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, Civilization, Integral, Lingua Franca, Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, and Transition. His 2006 article “The Geometry of Musical Chords” was the first music theory article published by Science in its 127-year history, and was discussed in Time, Nature, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, NPR, Physics Today, and elsewhere. (A second article, written with Clifton Callender and Ian Quinn, appeared in Science in April 2008.) As a result of this work, he has been invited to speak to audiences of physicists, musicians, philosophers, mathematicians, and geneticists. He is currently writing a book for Oxford University Press about what makes music sound good.