Lev Mikhailovich Kirillov (born in 1947) is a violist, conductor, composer and teacher. He has graduated from Rostov-on-Don conservatory and later — postgraduate studies at the Leningrad Conservatory (Professor Yu. Kramarov’s class). Now he is an assistant professor of the conservatory in the city of Afyon in Turkey.
Compositions by Lev Kirillov are embodiments of the philosophical, pedagogical and performing conception of an outstanding violist-expert. The published suite is an author’s transcription of the Polyphonic Suite for two violas.