Mikhail Bronner (born 1952) is a well-known modern Russian composer. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire (High School of Music) and completed his postgraduate studies in 1981. In 2000, M. Bronner was elected Secretary of the Russian Union of Composers. One of the main landmarks in his career was stage productionof his ballets «The Optimistic Tragedy» and «The Taming of the Shrew» at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre and the performance of his opera «The Golden Island» at the Nataliya Sats Moscow State Academic Children’s Music Theatre. M. Bronner has set a large number of sacral texts («Dona nobis pacem», «Stabat mater», «Ave Maria», «Book of Psalms», etc.) and written many compositions inspired by images, themes and characters of The Book (Old Testament). His «Jewish Requiem» was performed with great success in six cities in Germany, including Berlin. The Russian monthly «Muzykalnoe Obozrenie» (The Music Review) named M. Bronner «Composer of the Year 2002». M. Bronner is the author of more than 100 compositions: three operas, three ballets, symphonic, choral, vocal and chamber music, etc. His works are performed at concerts and festivals in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and USA and are produced on CD. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.