Vladimir Genin

Vladimir Genin (composer, pianist & music pedagogue) is born in Moscow in 1958 to a family with ties to the arts.          Among Vladimir Genin’s compositions are symphonic and chamber works, performed in Russia, Europe and USA, released on CDs and published by several German publishing companies such as Verlag Neue Musik Berlin, Sikorski Music Publishers Hamburg, Wolfgang G. Haas Classic Cologne, Ries & Erler Berlin, Jürgen Enninger Enter Media Publishing München.   The instrumentations of Mussorgsky’s ‘Songs and Dances of Death’ and ‘Sunless’ vocal cycles, commissioned from Genin by the Russian baritone Dmitry Hvorostovsky, were performed under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg (1993, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra), and in Rotterdam and Brussels (1998, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra).   The film ‘Der Brief des Kosmonauten’, directed by Vladimir Torbica (2002, Germany), with an original soundtrack by Genin recorded by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a successful release in Germany, and is available on DVD. The numerous music pieces commissioned by Sonoton Creative Sound Solutions Munich can be heard on many TV channels of Europe, the USA, Japan, South Africa, and Australia as documentary soundtracks. Since 1997 he lives in Munich.