Polina Osetinskaya

Polina Osetinskaya was born in Moscow and began performing at the age of five. She was soon acclaimed as a Wunderkind in her homeland. She gave her first concert at the age of six at the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania and at the age of seven entered the Central School of Music of the Moscow Conservatory. She later continued her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory under Marina Wolf and at the Moscow Conservatory under Vera Gornostaeva.
Polina Osetinskaya’s onstage partners have included Maxim Vengerov, Julian Milkis, Anton Batagov and Alexander Knyazev and she has worked with conductors such as Saulius Sondeckis, Vassily Sinaisky, Andrei Boreiko, Tugan Sokhiev, Laurent Petitgirard, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Teodor Currentzis and Alexander Sladkovsky.
She appears at the world’s most important concert halls, including the Barbican in London, the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the Moscow Conservatory and the Musikverein in Vienna, as well as in Rome, Tokyo, Milan, Brussels and throughout the USA, as well as at many festivals in Europe, the USA, Russia and Mexico.
Polina Osetinskaya has performed with ensembles such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of Weimar National Opera, the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Brno Philharmonic, the European Sinfonietta, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, musicAeterna, the Moscow Virtuosi and the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra.
In recital, Polina Osetinskaya is known for her unusual programmes, which include works by contemporary composers juxtaposed with traditional, classical works. She is also very much at home with post-avant-garde composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Arvo Pärt, Georgs Pelēcis and Pavel Karmanov.
She has collaborated with many recording companies including Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel Air and Melodiya.
After performing at the Salzburg Festival she will appear at Carnegie Hall next season with Maxim Vengerov and for her project An Unknown Friend.
Polina Osetinskaya has been awarded the Maly Triumph Prize. Her autobiography, Farewell, Sadness, describing her Wunderkind years, became a bestseller.