Anton Rovner

Anton Rovner (Russian: Антон Аркадьевич Ровнер; born 28 June 1970) is a Russian-American composer, music critic and theorist.

Rovner comes from a Jewish intellectual family. His father is the famous Russian philosopher Arkady Rovner. 1974 they emigrated to the United States. He studied piano at the Manhattan School of Music, composition with Andrew Thomas and Milton Babbitt at theJuilliard School and with Charles Wuorinen at the Rutgers University. Rovner earned a Ph.D. He also was a student of Eric Ewazen in Estherwood, New York and of Joseph Dubiel at Columbia University. From 1989 to 1990 he was a fellowship student at the Moscow Conservatory (studies with Nikolai Sidelnikov). Since 1992 he is artistic director of the Bridge Contemporary Music Series at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York and a member of the American Music Center. 2005 he was composer-in-residence at the Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden. He interviewed composers like Jean-Luc Darbellay, Alvin Lucier and Tristan Murail. His music has been presented in Europe, Asia and America.