Mikhail Bronner (born 1952) is a well-known contemporary Russian composer. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire (Music Academy) and completed his postgraduate studies in 1981. Author of more than 400 compositions of various genres (fifteen operas, two ballets, symphonic, choral, vocal and chamber music) performed at concerts and festivals in Russia (from Moscow to Vladivostok) and abroad (Germany, USA, Austria, Canada, China, Monaco, Greece, Spain, England, Scotland, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Egypt, Finland, India, Croatia, Bulgaria , Hungary, Lithuania, Slovenia, Belarus, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan).
Among the works of Bronner there are operas – «Harmful Advice» based on the poems of Grigory Oster (2020), «The Ugly Duckling» (2015), «Edible Tales» (2013), «Golden Island» (1993) (all staged at the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater named after N.I. Sats), as well as new operas «King Matt» based on the book by Janusz Korczak (2021), «Barmaley» based on the fairy tale by Korney Chukovsky (2002; second edition 2017); «King, Queen, Jack» based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (2004; second edition 2023); «The Dragon» based on the play by Evgeny Schwartz (2024); ballets «Optimistic Tragedy» (1985) and «The Taming of the Shrew» (1996) — both staged in the Moscow Musical Theatre Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko; works for symphony orchestra – «Korczak Symphony» (2024), «Deadline» (2023), «Romantic Concert» for accordion and symphony orchestra (2022), «Shoah» symphony in five parts (2020); «MISSA VOTIVA» for violin, piano and symphony orchestra (2018), «Rondo of War» for mandolin, balalaika and symphony orchestra (2017); «Ship of Fools» (2017), «Deus Ex Machina» (2016), «Zugzwang» for symphony orchestra with solo piano, violin and clarinet (2015), «So written ...» /«Katuv»/ concert for piano, button accordion and symphony orchestra (2004); as well as more than 70 instrumental concertos. Among them are «Trigger» sonata-fantasy in two parts for domra and chamber orchestra (2025); «The Book of Life» for piano, domra and chamber orchestra (2025); «Eight Jewish Dances» for domra, bayan and chamber orchestra (2022), «Prayer for Peace» for voice, violin and chamber orchestra (2022), «Stockholm Syndrome» for saxophone and chamber orchestra (2021), «Abode of Angels» for piano and chamber orchestra (2021), «Chagall» for two violins and chamber orchestra (2020); «Nearby-Far away» (based on Russian romances)» for cello and chamber orchestra (2019); «Amor Aeternus (Eternal Love)» for domra, viola and chamber orchestra (2019); «Proposed Circumstances» for domra and chamber orchestra (2019); «Three Sad Messages» for violin and chamber orchestra (2016), «Kein Heldenleben» / The Life of a Non-Hero/ poem for chamber orchestra (2016), «Swimming in the Waves of Love» eight Sonnets for bayan and chamber orchestra (2016), «In The Middle of Nowhere» /«Halfway to Nowhere»/ for violin, viola and chamber orchestra (2015); «Belarusian Concert» for cymbals and chamber orchestra (2012), «TSAVT TANEM» / «I'll Take Your Pain» / concert for cello and chamber orchestra (2011), «The Illusion of Life» concert for violin, percussion and chamber orchestra (2011), «Time to Forgive» for balalaika and chamber orchestra (2004), «In Search of the Grail» concert for violin, young musician and chamber orchestra (2004), «Gates of Heaven» for violin and chamber orchestra (2000)
M. Bronner has set a large number of sacral texts («Dona nobis pacem», «Stabat mater», «Ave Maria», «Book of Psalms», etc.) and has written many compositions inspired by images, themes and characters of The Book (Old Testament) — «Juda's Passions» for bayan and chamber orchestra (1998), «In the beginning» Joyous music for chorus, two pianos, kettledrums and string orchestra (2008), «Tower of Babel» for Russian folk orchestra (2011), «Expulsion from Eden» for viola, bass clarinet, vibraphone and bayan (2008), «Abraham and Isaac» for bayan and saxophone soprano (1998), «Adam and Eve» for bayan and violin (1999), «Saxophone‘s gospel» for saxophone and chamber orchestra (1997), «From the Book of Prophet Isaiah» (1998), «Time of Cain» for bassoon and chamber orchestra (2001). His «Jewish Requiem» for four soloists, mixed and children‘s choirs and orchestra (1992) was performed with great success in six cities in Germany, including Berlin.
Works by Mikhail Bronner were recorded on 46 CDs.
Mikhail Bronner - Shostakovich Prize Winner, International Prize in the Field of Sound Recording of Academic Music «Pure Sound» (2025) Winner, Winner of the International «Theater-goer Star Award» 2017. Winner of «Silver Disk» for achievements in the arts bayan of the Russian Academy of Music, Вoard member of the Moscow Union of Composers, the chairman of the selection committee of the Union of Composers in Moscow, a member of the organizing committee of the annual International Festival «Moscow Autumn».
M.Bronner is named «Composer of the Year» (2002) and «Person of the Year» (2013) (according to the newspaper «Muzykalnoe Obozrenie» (The Music Review).