Polina Nazaykinskaya, moscow

Russian Heritage

Violin

Composer

Lead Violin

Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow Graduate for Double Major in Composition & Violin studying under Konstantin Batashov and Vladimir Ivanov respectively

Masters & Artist Diploma in Composition Yale School of Music w/ Christopher Theofanidis & Ezra Laderman

Acclaimed Composer behind 'Heim' seen around the world annually and has become an important ensemble composition in the second decade of the 21'st Century

Recognised as a staple of Orchestral, Chamber & Solo repertory in the United States, Russia & Europe 

Doctoral Candidate at The Graduate Center CUNY under mentorship with Tania León

Adjunct Lecturer of Composition at Brooklyn College Conservatory

Charles Ives Scholarship from The American Academy of Arts & Letters 

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras 2021

Teaching Artist at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven

*Composer Nazaykinskaya & Mr. Bogris met under chance circumstances one summers afternoon. Her visit to Toronto brought her 3 doors west of a peculiar sounding wooden instrument she had not heard before, on which this particular neighbor was expressing himself openly. Her introduction was masterful - a virtuosic Violinists reciprocation of all the ethnic melodies from over the fence, one by one.....