CURRENT PROJECTS  (as of January 2007)

I compose music and play the piano.  

I teach courses at York University in Music Composition, Music Theory and in the Semiotics of the Fine Arts.

From time to time, I teach a course on the Semiotics of Music and the Institure for Musicology of the Free University of Berlin.  (Scheduled for June, 2007)

Here is a link to the program of the  recital I produced in October, 2006.  (It folds.  It opens in Word to p4.)

This Fall, the York University Student Orchestra premiered my Ghazal for Orchestra, and later this year, IsoSpin, a graduate composition students’ performance ensemble is planning to perform a composition I wrote for them, Another Turn—Memory, Solitude and Affirmation: A musical Term Paper en homage à Edward W. Said.

The following bio can be quoted:

                 David Lidov is a composer of many works, primarily for solo instruments, small ensembles and voice. His music has been performed in North and South America and in Europe. His work is noted for its psychological subtlety and for its inventiveness in maintaining attention.  He teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts of York University in Toronto.  In the 1970’s he devised an automatic computer grammar to write melodies, beginning a series of enquiries which gradually lead him to research in the theory of signs and to write the book, Elements of Semiotics (St. Martin’s 1999).  His papers and publications span work in experimental psychology, general semiotic theory and on applications of semiotics to music.  Several of these appear in his new collection, Is Language a Music? (Indianna University Press, 2004)  He was a principle contributor to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Semiotics and Cultural Studies and a past president of the Toronto Semiotic Circle.   David Lidov studied at Columbia University in New York.