Vladimir Genin

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. Life, career, compositions 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, who contributed to Sergei Eisenstein’s films Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky. After graduating in 1977 from the Tchaikovsky Academic Music College at the Moscow State Conservatory, he studied piano at the State Pedagogical University with Alisa Kezheradze and then continued composition with Prof. Roman Ledenev and piano with Prof. Ilya Klyachko at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His compositional development was strongly influenced by his long friendship with Shostakovich’s pupil Georgy Sviridov. His music has been performed across Europe, Russia, South Korea and the United States by leading orchestras and ensembles, including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Graz Philharmonic and the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna under Oksana Lyniv, as well as