ピアニスト： ポリーナ・オセチンスカヤ Polina Osetinskaya
Polina Osetinskaya (born December 11, 1975 in Moscow) is a Russian pianist.
She was the recipient of the Triumph Young Musicians Award.
Biography
Polina Osetinskaya began playing at the age of five. At the age of six, she performed for the first time on stage. In 1982 she entered the Moscow Central School of Music. She gave her first concert as a soloist in 1983 in Moscow. At the age of eight she played Jean-Sebastien Bach's concerto in D minor (transposed for two harpsichords) with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Saulius Sondeckis. In 1987 at the age of 11, she made her debut in the grand hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. She plays Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 with the chamber orchestra conducted by Georgi Vetvitski.
She continued her musical training at the St. Petersburg High School of Music, where she taught Marina Benjamina Wolf1. In 1998, Ossetinskaya was an outsider with the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg. In 2000, she completed training at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Vera Gornostayeva as her teacher.
Concerts
She then gives concerts in Russia and abroad, as a soloist or with major Russian and foreign orchestras. Osetinskaya enjoys playing in ensembles and participating in musical projects with other musicians. She presents to the public programs in which, in addition to classical works, she proposes works by avant-garde contemporary authors such as: Valentyn Sylvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Arvo Purt, Vladimir Martynov, Pavel Karmanov, Georgs Pelcis.
Polina Osetinskaya takes part in many prestigious international festivals such as the Wallonia Festival (Brussels2, the Mainly Mozart Festival (San Diego California), the December Evenings (Moscow), the Crescendo Festival (Pskov)3, the Baikal Stars Festival (Irkutsk, the Diaghilevski Festival (Perm), the Contemporary Piano Festival Liki (Mariinsky Theatre)4 and the Stars festival of the sleepless nights (St. Petersburg)
At the Diaghilevski Festival and other stage venues, Osetinskaya has presented several interesting musical projects in common with other artists such as: violinist Maxime Venguerov, pianist Aleksei Goribol, composer and pianist Anton Batagov, film actress and theatre actress Ksenia Rappoport.
Osetinskaya has performed with conductors such as Tugan Sokhiev, Alexander Sladkovsky, Vasily Sinaisky, Teodor Currentzis, Saulius Sondeckis, Thomas Sanderling, Dmitri Sitkovetsky. She has published under many labels such as: Sony Music, Naxos, Bel Air, and Quartz.
She also wrote an autobiographical account that became a bestseller: Farewell Sadness (in Russian, Prochai groust)6. In it, she describes the unusual circumstances of her childhood and her difficult evolution as a musician.
Social activities
The pianist has also created and directs the Polina Osetinskaya Professional Musicians Health Support Centre7, which helps musicians and performing arts professionals solve their problems related to the characteristics of their professions, such as those involving hands, muscles, stage stress and others.8
Osetinskaya also takes care of other charitable activities such as the oxygen fund which helps patients with cystic fibrosis9.