Polina began playing the piano at age five. She is looked upon in her native Russia as a world class pianist and recognized as one of four child prodigies contemporary with Evgeny Kissin, Maxim Vengerov, and Vadim Repin.

Age 6, Polina gave her first public concert in Vilnius, Lithuania, in the Great Hall. Thereafter, world famous orchestras and conductors have been her partners on stage. As a child prodigy, Polina had a rigorous schedule and performed over 1000 solo and orchestral concerts.

At age nine, in an international broadcast, Polina performed in one evening’s program Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto, a feat still unprecedented for a child of that age and recognized as a milestone in the world’s history of piano performances.

Age 11 Polina gave her debut in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory where she performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23. Major television companies filmed documentaries of Polina with two live televised appearances between the USA and Russia in 1985 and 1986, seen by millions on both sides of the Atlantic.

1991-1993 Polina was invited by the United States Congress and the Russian Cultural Foundation to perform at Kennedy Center in the "New Names" cultural exhange between the two countries. The European Community Foundation "EEC" awarded her the first scholarship for gifted musicians.

1993 To music critic's acclaim, Polina opened the Festival du Wallonie at the Fine Arts Palace in Brussels performing Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 2.

1995-1996 Polina completed two concert tours of Japan, also performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with the Tokyo Philharmonic to an audience of thousands.

1996 to present - Polina is a regular soloist with two of the world’s largest and most prestigious orchestras, the Temirkanov-St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Svetlanoff-Moscow State Academy Orchestra. Polina has also performed as soloist with the Badishen State Orchestra of Germany, Tokyo Philharmonic, the Weimar National Opera Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Academic Symphonic Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society, St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra Klassica, Vladimir Spivakov's "Moscow Virtuosi", Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Bashmet's "Moscow Soloists" Orchestra, the Russian State Orchestra, Trondhiem Symphony Orchestra of Norway, Europeen Simfonietta, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and numerous others. She has been soloist under the leadership of BBC Conductor Laureate Jan Pascal Tortellier, Saulius Sondeckis, Karl Sollak, Gintarus Rinkevicius, Thomas Zanderling, Vladimir Ziva, Vassily Sinaiski, Karel Chinchon, Vladimir Verbitsky, Felix Chiu Sen-Chen, Igor Golovtchin, Alexander Dmitriev, Arno
ld Kats, Vladimir Ponkin, Andrey Boreyko, Jiosa Domarkas, Gerd Albrecht and many others.

2001 As a "National Triumph" award recipient for outstanding contribution to Russian arts and culture, former winners with Polina onstage in Moscow were pianist Evgeny Kissin, and violinist Gidon Kremer, among others.

Polina concertizes today throughout the world with a large repertoire including the most complicated solo, chamber and orchestral programs spanning early Baroque through the 21st century. She has recorded with the Naxos, Sony, and Bel Air labels.