Polina Fradkina performs as a concert pianist and lecturer. She performs extensively at recitals and in ensembles and has recorded and released five solo albums and a number of albums in collaboration with other musicians. Her audience varies from academic venues such as the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, The Hermitage to Art Spaces and Jazz Clubs. In the spring of 2021, she held a presentation at TEDx Talks. In addition to academic classical music, Polina’s interests lie in cross-cultural projects related to her professional activity. Some of her projects are:

● a program "Melancholy"where classical music meets sound design;

● an educational project "Metamusic" about the relations between music and physiology;

● a duet "In-Temporalis" with Cuban percussionist Yoel Gonzalez, which aims to unite classical and Afro-Cuban cultural traditions.

In 2022, Polina and her husband left Russia, due to their opposition to the current political regime. Since then, she has given a multitude of concerts as a soloist and in collaboration with Danish musicians; among them: Gitta-Maria Sjöberg, Signe Asmussen, Katrine Gislinge, Hanne Tofte Jespersen, Tobias Van der Pals, Christine Pryn, Pål Eide. She has also been involved in several Danish projects such as: Frederiksberg Festival, Golden Age Festival, Rudersdal Sommerkoncerter, HALV12 Kammerkoncert; “The End”, an upcoming musical drama feature film by the Oscar- nominated Director Joshua Oppenheimer and produced by Final Cut Studios, starring Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon; Concert-lecture program on the connection between Rhetoric and Music at the Rhetoric Department at the University of Copenhagen.

Polina started on her musical path at the age of five. She graduated from the Musical Lyceum at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, then from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she also did her postgraduate studies. Additionally, she holds a degree from the Rubin Academy of Music of Tel Aviv University and St. Petersburg Institute of Depth Psychology.

Currently, Polina is delivering keynote concert lectures in Denmark and abroad in both Russian and English languages. She engages with the audience, discussing music through the prisms of sociology, history, and psychology, while also performing pieces from classical and contemporary academic music.