Valeri Brainin

Valeri "Willi" Borisovich Brainin (Russian: Валерий "Вилли" Борисович Брайнин, romanized: Valeri "Villi" Borissovich Brainin, IPA: [vɐˈlʲerʲɪj ˈvʲilʲɪ bɐˈrʲisəvʲɪdʑ ˈbrajnʲɪn] ⓘ ⓘ; born 27 January 1948 in Nizhni Tagil), also known as Brainin-Passek (Russian: Брайнин-Пассек, IPA: [ˈbrajnʲɪn ˈpasʲɪk] ⓘ), is a Russian and German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet.

[3] He has directed seminars/master courses at conservatoires and universities in Austria, Colombia, Germany, Italy, Russia, USA, etc.

Brainin is a full Member of the International Teacher's Training Academy of Science (Moscow),[4] and of other scientific/pedagogical societies.

The Brainin Teaching Method for ‘development of musical intelligence in children’[5][6][7][8] became a standard part of the curriculum.

[15][16] Russian poet (also known as Valeri (Willi) Brainin-Passek),[17][18][19][20] a pupil of Arseny Tarkovsky, a member (1985–1990) of Moscow Club „Poezia“ (ru: Клуб «Поэзия») together with Yuri Arabov, Jewgenij Bunimovitch, Mikhail Epstein, Alexandr Eremenko, Sergey Gandlevsky, Nina Iskrenko, Timur Kibirov, Alexei Parshchikov, Dmitri Prigov, Lev Rubinstein, a. o.