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 the Boulez Ensemble Berlin, Menuhin Academy Soloists,
Kyiv Camerata, INSO Lviv,
Henschel Quartet, Rudersdal Chamber Players, Camerata Nova, and the International New Symphony Orchestra Lviv. His works have also been performed in major venues such as the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the
Berlin Philharmonie, and the Moscow Philharmonic Hall. Works by Genin have been published by Sikorski,
Wise Music Group (formerly Doblinger), Ries & Erler, Verlag Neue Musik, UMP (United Music Publishing, UK), and others. He has participated in numerous international festivals, among them Pietrasanta in Concerto (Italy), the International Review of Composers in Belgrade, Moscow Autumn, MozArt Lviv, Contrasts (Ukraine), the Gori Choral Festival (Georgia), Musikfest der Münchner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, and the Hohenloher Kultursommer (Germany). His oratorio
Plaint of Andrei Bogolubski, Great Prince of Vladimir was performed during the Millennium of Christianity in Russia and on tour in the USA, with more than 70 performances to date and over 20,000 records sold. His orchestrations of Mussorgsky's vocal cycles
Songs and Dances of Death and
Without Sun, commissioned by
Dmitri Hvorostovsky, were conducted by
Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Rotterdam, and Brussels. His CD
Seven Melodies for the Dial, performed by Olga Domnina, was released by
Challenge Records in 2012 and received international acclaim.
Les Fleurs du Mal (2013) was named “CD of the Month” by MusicWeb International in 2015. In 2014 he created the multimedia work
Threnody for the Victims in Ukraine with the Nodelman Quartet. In collaboration with filmmaker
Stefan Nacke, Genin has received international awards for the music films
Dreams,
Punto Coronata,
Coronata in Blue, and
Ukrainian Madonna. His operas
Alkestis and
Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes, based on texts by R. M. Rilke, premiered in 2023 at the
Pierre Boulez Saal. In 2024, his
Accordion Concerto was premiered at the
Berlin Philharmonie. Genin has also composed numerous film scores. His ''The Cosmonaut's Letter
(2001) was shown in cinemas and on Premiere TV, and performed live by Camerata Nova and the Münchner Rundfunkorchester; the suite was later presented in Munich’s Philharmonie and Musikhochschule. He arranged music for several German, Austrian, Swiss, French, and Belgian film and TV productions, including ZDF’s Die Pilgerin
(2014), Insoupçonnable
(2010), and Lippels Traum'' (2009). Since 2012, Genin has taught regularly at the Austrian Master Classes (Schloss Zell an der Pram) and heads the music department at the Hallbergmoos music school. He is the founder and artistic director of the concert series
erstKlassiK. == Selected works ==