Polina Leschenko was born in St. Petersburg into a family of musicians and received her first piano lessons with her father at the age of six. Just two years later, she made her debut with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg. At the age of 12, Polina made her debut at London’s Barbican Hall with Beethoven’s 5th Piano Concerto. Since then, Polina Leschenko has worked with major orchestras such as the Salzburg Camerata, the Hallé Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Orquesta de Euskadi and the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Polina has given concerts in renowned concert halls such as the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, the Cité de la musique in Paris and the Sydney Opera House. As an accomplished and admired chamber musician, Polina Leschenko also appears frequently at many festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Progetto Martha Argerich Festival in Lugano, the Verbier Festival, the Risor Festival of Chamber Music, in Stavanger, la Roque d’Anthéron Aldeburgh, Oxford, Cheltenham, Stift, Istanbul, Lockenhaus and at the Musiktage Mondsee.