Denis Mickiewicz, born into a Russian family in Latvia, is a founding conductor of the

Yale Russian Chorus The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass choral ensemble at Yale University, established in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz, a student at the Yale Music School, and George Litton, president of the Yale Russian Club. The group sings a variety of secular a ...

and professor emeritus of Russian literature at Duke University. He emigrated first to Austria and then to the United States in 1952. He was presented with a

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in his honor in 2009.

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