Vladimir Rannev (b. 1970) — is a composer and lecturer at the St. Petersburg State University. In 2003, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory where he studied with Boris Tishchenko and from the Cologne University of Music with a degree in electronic music where he studied with Hans Ulrich Humpert. Rannev is a fellow of Gartow-Stiftung (Germany, 2002) and a winner of the Salvatore Martirano Award of the University of Illinois (USA, 2009) and Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award (Switzerland, 2010).
His opera Two Acts won the Grand Prix of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize in 2013. The opera Prose won the Casta Diva Russian Opera Prize in 2019, the Russian Theatre Critics Association Prize and the Golden Mask Russian National Theatre Award in 2019. The album with this opera received the Pure Music Award in Russia as the best recording of academic music in the same year.
Vladimir Rannev’s music has been performed in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, Poland, Japan and the USA. Among the performers of his works are the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Studio for New Music, the vocal ensembles N’Caged and Questa Musica, the Smolny Cathedral Choir (Russia), the ensembles Nostri Temporis (Ukraine), Orkest De Volharding and Amstel Quartet (the Netherlands), Ensemble Phoenix Basel, Ensemble Proton Bern, Kontratrio, and UMS 'n JIP (Switzerland), Mosaik, Integrales, Les Eclats du Son, Lux:NM, El Perro Andaluz, Clair-obscure, the Singakademie Oberhausen choir, the choir Cantus Domus and Auditiv Vokal (Germany), the ensemble NAMES (Austria), 2e2m and Les Percussions de Strasbourg (France) and others.
