Polina Kryshen

Polina Kryshen was born in 1985 in Petrozavodsk. In 1998 she graduated from Helmer Sinisalo Petrozavodsk Children’s Music School № 1 violin class, and in 2000, its music theory department. In 2004 she graduated cum laude from theory of music department of K. Rautio Petrozavodsk Music College, and in 2009 from A. K. Glazunov Petrozavodsk State Conservatory, composition class by Professor Aleksandr Beloborodov.

Polina Kryshen was laureate of Moscow Prokofiev contest (Pushkin, 2014), All-Russia’s composition award in honor of S. Prokofiev (Korolev, Moscow district, 2018), the 2nd International composition competition “Fructus temporum” (Astrakhan’, 2017), International Arts Competition “Classics and Modernity”, in nomination for instrumentation (Ekaterinburg, 2018), diploma-winner of Kantele composition contest (Petrozavodsk, 2018). Twice she participated in young composers’ seminar in young composers’ guest house Ruza, supervised by Viktor Ekimovski (2008, 2014).

Received an honorary stipend from the government of the Republic of Karelia (2016).

A gratulatory letter from the Karelian Ministry of Culture, “For prolific work in choral music composition and choral singing popularization in the Republic of Karelia” (2017).

Course by A. Smirnov “History, aesthetics and technology of electro-acoustic music”, P. I. Tschaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (2014)

Short-term course “History and theory of music genres and forms”, Petrozavodsk State Conservatory (October-December 2017)

Works at music theory and composition department, teaching “Harmony”, “Solfeggio”, “Composition”, “Digital and electronic music”, “Composition teaching methodology”. From 2017 on teaches option course “Composition” to composition class students. Since 2011 has been teaching composition to students of children’s music schools of Petrozavodsk. Her students have often been winners of Russian and international music awards.

Laureates and award-winners:

• Aleksandr Gagulashvili (All-Russia’s composition contest in honor of S. Prokofiev, Korolev, Moscow district, 2018, 2nd degree; International Arts Competition “Classics and Modernity”, in nomination for instrumentation, 2018, 1st degree)
• Daniil Popov (All-Russia’s composition contest in honor of S. Prokofiev, Korolev, Moscow district, 2018, 3rd degree)
• Olesya Velichko (International Arts Competition “Classics and Modernity”, in nomination for instrumentation, 2018, grand prix)
• Tatiana Popova (International Arts Competition “Classics and Modernity”, in nomination for instrumentation, 2018, 1st degree)

Polina Kryshen authored a considerable number of choral and chamber music pieces: cantata “Songs of Love” for mixed choir and orchestra; cantata “Enuma Elish” for choir and percussion ensemble to the Babylonian epic; choral cycle for children’s choir to poems by Daniil Kharms; 12 stichera to canonical text. Choral pieces by Polina Kryshen are being performed by choral collectives in Petrozavodsk and elsewhere.

Her chamber pieces include “Vertigo” for flute, violin and cello, a sonata for solo violin, “Dark mirror” for flute, two violins, viola, cello and piano, song cycle to poems by V. Khlebnikov for soprano, flute and piano, “Trolley-bus driver” for flute, two kantele and balalaika bass.

Polina is also author of orchestrations and transpositions for various collectives, performed by symphony orchestra of Karelian Philharmonia and other groups in Petrozavodsk and other places in Russia.