Polina Grigorieva

Piano

In 2000 Polina Grigorieva graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, completing an assistant traineeship there in 2002 and graduating from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (Germany) in 2011. Since 1995 she has worked as an accompanist of the Wind Department (and as a chamber ensemble teacher since 2000) at the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music; she is also an accompanist at the St Petersburg Conservatory.

Prize-winner at the Virtuosi International Youth Festival and Competition (St Petersburg, 1997; 1^st prize), the Sergey Taneyev All-Russian Open Competition of Chamber Ensembles and Piano Duets (Kaluga, 1999; 4^th prize), the Yurmala International Competition of Chamber Ensembles and Piano Duets (Latvia, 2000; 2^nd prize), the International Piano Competition Republic of San Marino (2004; 3^rd prize and special prize for the best performance of a work by Schubert), the Sergey Taneyev International Competition of Chamber Ensembles (Kaluga, 2005; 2^nd prize and two special prizes), the International Schubert Competition for Piano Duets (Jeseník, Czech Republic, 2007; 2^nd prize and special prize for the best performance of a work by Schubert), the Bialystok International Piano Duo Competition (Poland, 2008; 4^th prize), the Premio Valentino Bucchi competition (Rome, 2009; 1^st prize), the Chicago International Duo Piano Competition (2011; Grand Prize and Norman Pellegrini Schubert Prize) and the Sergei Rachmaninoff Music International Competition (St Petersburg, 2012; 3^rd prize).

Took part in the Schubert Festival (Rostock) and the festivals St Petersburg Musical Spring and Baltic Piano Duets. Together with Yulia Yurchenko she performed in the piano duo Vis-à-vis.
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