Vladimir Genin | |
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 Vladimir Genin, composer & pianist (2011) | |
| Born | 31 March 1958 |
| Alma mater | Moscow Conservatory |
| Spouse | Irina Skrynnik |
Vladimir Mikhailovich Genin (born 31 March 1958 in Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian-German composer, pianist and piano teacher. He has lived in Munich since 1997.
Vladimir Genin is the son of the writer and musician Mikhail Genin and Elena Spinel. His grandfather Jossif (Joseph) Spinel was a painter and stage designer.
After graduation 1977 from the Tchaikovsky Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory for one year he studied piano at the State Pedagogical University with Alisa Kezheradze, then composition with Prof. Roman Ledenev and piano with Prof. Ilya Kljachko at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His compositional development was influenced also by his long friendship with Shostakovich's pupilGeorgy Sviridov.
Works by V. Genin have been published by Sikorski Music Publishers, Musikverlag Ries&Erler Berlin and Challenge Records International and have been performed in Europe, Russia, South Korea and in the US, among others with the with Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Opera Theatre "New Opera" under Yevgeny Kolobov, Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Opera Theatre St. Petersburg under Valery Gergiev, Rotterdams Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, The Menuhin Academy Soloists Switzerland, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Graz Philharmonic Orchestra under Oksana Lyniv, INSO Lemberg unter V. Protasov.
They were performed at the international festival Pietrasanta in Concerto (Italy), International Review of Composers in Belgrade, the International Festival Moscow Autumn, the International Gori Choral Festival Georgia, the 'Musikfest der Münchner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, The Hohenloher Kultursommer et al.
The mystery play Plaint of Andrei Bogolubski, Great Prince of Vladimir was performed during the celebration of the Millennium of Christianity in Russia and on a concert tour in the USA [1] and has since seen over 70 performances. Over 20,000 copies of this work have been sold on records and CDs.
Performances of his orchestrations of Modest Mussorgsky's vocal cycles Songs and Dances of Death and Without Sun commissioned by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky took place under the baton of Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg (Kirov-Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra), Rotterdam and Brussels (Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra).
The feature film The Cosmonaut's Letter (D, 2001) [2] with Genin's original music was presented in cinemas and broadcast by Premiere TV. The Suite from the Film Music was performed by Camerata Nova in the Carl Orff Hall of the Munich Philharmonic under the baton of Vladimir Genin and at the Night of Film Music [3] by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester under Frank Zacher in the Great Concert Hall of the Münchner Musikhochschule.
In 2001, commissioned by the music library Sonoton (Creative Sound Solutions, Munich), he composed six pieces for chamber ensemble together with Roman Raithel, which were released on the CD "Abstract Images" and have since been broadcast as background music by television stations in Europe, Australia, Japan and the USA.
The piano cycle Seven Melodies for the Dial, composed for the pianist Olga Domnina, was released in 2012 by Challenge Records International on a CD, [4] which received positive reviews. [5] [6] A glance at the press review reveals the success of performances of this cycle in Concertgebouw Amsterdam, [7] [8] in the International House of Music Moscow [9] and at Moscow's Stanislavsky Music Theatre.
The CD of the great vocal cycle Les Fleurs du Mal, inspired by Charles Baudelaire, was named CD of the Month in January 2015 by the portal MusicWeb International. [10]
A multimedia project by Vladimir Genin together with the Nodelman Quartet Threnody for the Victims in Ukraine [11] to commemorate the dead of the protests in Kyiv in February 2014 (Euromaidan) has generated a lot of attention provided [12] in Germany.
V. Genin also occasionally orchestrates film scores for important German film composers, such as for the ZDF two-parter "Die Pilgerin" (2014), for the feature films "Insoupçonnable" (Switzerland/France 2010), "Lippels Traum" (D 2009).
Since 2015 V. Genin has been working closely with the Ukrainian star violinist Valeriy Sokolov. Sonata for violin and piano (2015) and chamber concerto Pietà (2017) were commissioned by him.
2022 - 2023 Genin (together with the German filmmaker Stefan Nacke) won numerous prizes at the International Music Video Awards “Best Jazz Track”, “Best Music Video” “Best Musical Short Film” for the films Dreams, Punto Coronata, Coronata In Blue and Ukrainian Madonna.
Recent world premieres of Vladimir Genin's music include his two operas based on texts by R.M. Rilke, Alkestis and Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes in the Pierre Boulez Hall in Berlin (2023), Passacaglia in Yellow-Blue with Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna in Auditorium Teatro Manzoni Bologna and Teatro Claudio Abbado Ferrara (2023) conducted by Oksana Lyniv, and Accordion Concerto in the Berlin Philharmonie (2024), interpreted by Marko Ševarlić.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians dedicated an article to the work of Vladimir Genin.
As the initiator and artistic director of the project The Musicians' Guild of the Future, he teaches piano, chamber music, composition, orchestration and prepares young artists for competitions and for studies at the conservatory. Among his students are prize winners of national and international competitions in Germany, France and Switzerland. He has been realizing his pedagogical principles since 2002 as Head of the Music Department with a team of 20 and 260 students at the Music school Hallbergmoos [13] and since 2012 a regular professor at the Austrian Master Classes. He is also artistic director of the concert series erstKlassiK which he launched in 2008.
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