Vladimir Podgorestsky
conductor
After earning his B.A. in Conducting from the Moscow State Conservatory, and continuing with the MFA Program in Film Music Composition at University of North Carolina, School of Art, and the Film Scoring Graduate Certificate Program from UCLA, Vladimir Podgoretsky has been working for more than 7 years on diverse Hollywood feature films and animation films. His credits as orchestrator and conductor include the feature films Season of the Witch, Single Shot, Scavengers, the acclaimed video game World of Warcraft, the ABC TV series Revenge, and others.
Vladimir composed music for the feature film The Game of Truth, from acclaimed producer Timur Bekmambetov, and worked as an additional music arranger together with film composer Harry Gregson Williams on the film Equalizer.
He was awarded the BMI Goldsmith Film Scoring Scholarship (2011), and a Fulbright Scholarship (2009).
He continues to work as the Artistic Director, Conductor and Lead Orchestrator with Bow Tie Orchestra in Moscow, in parallel with working on his own compositions.
