Vladimir Gorlinsky (b. 1984) — is a composer, improviser and creator of spatial compositions and sound installations. He graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied with Vladimir Tarnopolski. After graduation, he taught at the Department of Contemporary Music. He has attended master classes of composers Beat Furrer, Peter Ablinger, Brian Ferneyhough, Raphaël Cendo, Philippe Leroux, Georges Aperghis and others. He completed an internship at the Impuls Academy in Austria, at the New Music Courses in Darmstadt and at the composing workshop of the Modern ensemble in Germany.
Vladimir has won prizes of several international competitions, including the Alfred Schnittke International Competition for Young Composers (Moscow, 2002), the 4th International Jurgenson Competition (Moscow, 2007), the Pythian Games (St. Petersburg, 2008), the International Rostrum of Composers (Dublin, Ireland, 2008), the YouTube Online Composers Competition (Moscow, 2010), Impuls Academy (Graz, Austria, 2011) and Open Space (Moscow, 2015). His compositions were performed at international festivals and in projects performed by some of the leading ensembles of contemporary music in Russia and other countries, as well as by the orchestras of the Sint-Niklaas Academy (Belgium), New Russia led by Yuri Bashmet and the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis.
Vladimir Gorlinsky holds courses of lectures on history and practice of composition and improvisation at the conservatories of Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, the National Center for Contemporary Art, SOTA Workshop, the Meyerhold Center, the Pro Arte Foundation, the Museum of Sound in St. Petersburg and the University of Haifa. As a performer and composer he has collaborated with Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, the Yermolova Theatre and
the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya.
