Biography

biography

In season 2025/2026 Polina Osetinskaya is making a number of her solo debuts in Europe, recital, chamber and orchestral appearances in the US and returns to Baltic, Italy, Germany with different projects.

Her performances are praised by music critics and colleagues:

"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."

Review by Gabriela Montero

“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

Her performances are praised by music critics and colleagues:

"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."

Review by Gabriela Montero

“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

Osetinskaya has performed at Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna’s Musikverein and Concerthaus, London’s Barbican Centre, Salzburg Festspiele, Carnegie hall, Sydney Opera house, as well as in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Slovakia, Poland, USA, Russia and Israel.

She has appeared with musicAeterna, Mariinsky Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

Onstage partners have included Teodor Currentzis, David Russell Davies, Laurent Petitgirard, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrey Boreyko, Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Osetinskaya released her new album of music of Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Arvo Párt in November 2024 with label Evidence Classics, and has also released number of recordings with the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel Air and Melodiya labels.

She is also an author of a bestseller autobiography book “Farewell, sadness”.

Onstage partners have included Teodor Currentzis, David Russell Davies, Laurent Petitgirard, Vladimir Spivakov, Andrey Boreyko, Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Osetinskaya released her new album of music of Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Arvo Párt in November 2024 with label Evidence Classics, and has also released number of recordings with the Quartz, Naxos, Sony Music, Bel Air and Melodiya labels.

She is also an author of a bestseller autobiography book “Farewell, sadness”.