Polina Osetinskaya
In the 2024–25 concert season, Polina Osetinskaya makes her debuts in Australia, Singapore, and Brazil and returns to the United States with this current recital tour with her colleague Maxim Vengerov. She also has a series of debuts with new recitals at festivals at the Konzerthaus in Austria, takes part in a major project dedicated to the five Prokofiev piano concertos in Germany (Theater Altenburg Gera), and gives concerts in Italy, Belgium, and Germany.
Osetinskaya has performed at Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Barbican Centre, and Rome’s Teatro Argentina, as well as in the US, Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia, and Israel. She has appeared with musicAeterna, the Mariinsky Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Onstage partners have included Teodor Currentzis, Laurent Petitgirard, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrey Boreyko, Dmitry Liss, and Pascal Tortelier. Osetinskaya has released recordings with the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel-Aire, and Melodiya labels.
Internationally, Osetinskaya began her career at the age of five and was soon proclaimed 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. Her first teacher was her father, Oleg Osetinsky, after which she continued her studies at the Leningrad Conservatory with Marina Wolf and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Vera Gornostaeva.