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“Polina belongs in the pantheon of greats. A Queen, a grand and real artist, a committed one, so true to herself and her convictions. Polina gave the most magical, masterful, sensitive, impassioned, pianistically sublime, honest, vulnerable and selfless recital I have ever heard.”
“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!”
Admired for “depth, polish, flair… and an inquisitive musical mind” (Sun Sentinel), pianist Polina Osetinskaya’s “elegant and nuanced” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) performances have endeared her to audiences around the globe.
A rare musician who made the leap from child prodigy to celebrated soloist, Osetinskaya has performed at Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, London’s Barbican Centre, Salzburg Festspiele, Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, and Berlin Philharmonie, and has appeared with musicAeterna, Mariinsky Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, and Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed with conductors Teodor Currentzis, Dennis Russell Davies, Laurent Petitgirard, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrey Boreyko, Yan Pascal Tortelier, and enjoys an ongoing chamber music collaboration with Maxim Vengerov.
Osetinskaya released her newest album of the music of Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Arvo Pärt in November 2024 with French label Evidence, and has also recorded on the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel Air, and Melodiya labels. She is the author of the bestselling autobiography, Farewell, Sadness.
Born in Moscow, Polina Osetinskaya made her orchestral debut at eight years old playing Bach’s D minor concerto with the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Saulius Sondeckis and became a nationally celebrated phenomenon at the age of eleven when she played the Mozart A-major concerto No. 23 at the legendary Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Hall.
