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Polina Osetinskaya Biography

​In the 2024/2025 concert season, Polina makes her debuts in Australia, Singapore, and Brazil and comes back to the United States with a recital tour along with a tour with her colleague Maxim Vengerov. She also has a series of her debuts with new recitals at festivals and at Konzerthaus in Austria, takes part in a big project dedicated to 5 Prokofiev concertos in Germany in Theater Altenburg Gera, and plays concerts in Italy, Belgium, and Germany.
Her performances are praised by music critics:
“Her tone is deep and rich, her articulation faultless and her feeling for the pulse of the music she is playing is as natural as breathing – that’s something that cannot be taught.”

Review by Martin Anderson

“Polina Osetinskaya is a terrific pianist. More importantly, she is a magnificently endowed musician. Her performances always explore new facets of even the most familiar scores... She is a musical treasure!”

Review by Lawrence Budmen

“Polina Osetinskaya herself is an excellent pianist. Her personality and amazing skill made her an audience favorite and showed her extreme virtuosity.”

Review by Harry Rolnick

Ms. Osetinskaya has performed at Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Barbican Centre, Rome’s Teatro Argentina, as well as in Italy, Germany, Poland, The USA, Russia and Israel.
Ms. Osetinskaya has appeared with musicAeterna, Mariinsky Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Onstage partners have included Teodor Currentzis, Laurent Petitgirard, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrey Boreyko, Dmitry Liss, Yan Pascal Tortelier. Ms. Osetinskaya has released recordings with the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel-Aire, and Melodiya labels.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Polina Osetinskaya began her career at the age of five and was soon acclaimed as a wunderkind in the former Soviet Union. She gave her first concert at the age of six and entered the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory at the age of seven. The first teacher of Ms. Osetinskaya was her father Oleg Osetinsky, then she continued her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory with Marina Wolf and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva.
Violinist Maxim Vengerov and pianist Polina Osetinskaya will bring their signature "passion and virtuosity" to the Boston Symphony Hall on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 8:00 PM. The formidable performers, hailed by critics as a "Powerhouse Duo," are preparing vibrant program of works for this tour, in a celebration of their longtime collaborative stage partnership. While Osetinskaya has played in Boston just last year, this will be Vengerov's first Boston performance in over 25 years, and the duo's first time on the BSO stage.
Tickets are available now at BSO.org and by phone at 617-266-1200.
2024-09-23 19:51