Valeri Brainin


Valeri Brainin, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet.
Born January 27, 1948 in Nizhni Tagil, Russia, in the family of Austrian poet and translator, political émigré Boris Brainin, who belonged to the well-known Viennese Brainin family.
He lives at the moment both in Hanover, Germany, and in Moscow, Russia.

Positions

President of the Russian Federation Society for Music Education – National Affiliate of the International Society for Music Education, a member of UNESCO.
Head of the Laboratory of New Technologies in Music Education, Moscow State Pedagogical University.
Art Director of Classica Nova International Music Competition.
Art Director of the net of Brainin Music Schools, Germany.
He has directed seminars/master courses at conservatoires and universities in Austria, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Russia, USA, etc. In addition he offered weekly music talks on Radio Liberty from Munich and Prague, and has literary, critical and scientific musical publications in Russian, German, English, and Italian.

Music activities

Brainin is a full Member of the International Teacher's Training Academy of Science, and of other scientific/pedagogical societies. He studied mathematics, linguistics, musical pedagogics, music theory and composition. He has had works performed in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, and taught at Moscow's Gnessin Music School for specially gifted children. The Brainin Teaching Method for ‘development of musical intelligence in children’ became a standard part of the curriculum. He is also a noted piano teacher for children. Among his former students there are some prize-winners of national and international competitions.
Brainin is a researcher in microtonal music.

Literary activities

Russian poet, a pupil of Arseny Tarkovsky, a member of Moscow Club „Poezia“ together with Yuri Arabov, Jewgenij Bunimovitch, Mikhail Epstein, Alexandr Eremenko, Sergey Gandlevsky, Nina Iskrenko, Timur Kibirov, Alexei Parshchikov, Dmitri Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, a. o.
Most essential poetry publications:
Russian:
literary magazines "Znamya", "Novy Mir", "Arion", "Ogoniok", "Grani", "Dvadtsat dva", "Kreshchatik", anthologies "Verses of the Century" and "Verses of the Century-2".
English:
literary magazine "Partisan Review".

Well-known relatives