Polina Nazaykinskaya
Polina Nazaykinskaya
Adjunct Lecturer, Composition
Born in Togliatti, Russia, Polina Nazaykinskaya has been studying music since the age of four and composed her first large-scale work at 14. She went on to create music for both chamber and full orchestras as well as art songs, film music, a musical theater works, an opera, and, most recently, her first symphony, April Song. Nazaykinskaya has received many national and international awards, including the Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, while her music received laudatory reviews from the press, including The New York Times. Her music has been performed by the Russian National Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Olaf Philharmonia, the US Army Orchestra, and the Hermitage Orchestra and chorus. She has collaborated with top conductors, including Osmo Vänskä, Teodor Currentzis, Fabio Mastrangelo, and Hannu Lintu.
Nazaykinskaya has received a music education both in Russia and the United States. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory College in Moscow, with concentrations in both composition, under Konstantin Batashov, and violin. She then continued her studies of composition at the Yale School of Music with Christopher Theofanidis and Ezra Laderman, graduated with honors, and is now completing her doctorate in composition at the CUNY Graduate Center with Tania León. She is also a teaching artist at the New York Philharmonic Composers Bridge Program and an adjunct lecturer of composition at the Conservatory of Music of Brooklyn College.
