Born in Moscow, Polina began playing piano at the age of five, performing her first solo concert at the Vilnius Conservatory at the age of just six years, thus achieving the status of the most gifted young pianist in the Soviet Union. Later, she worked with mentors Marina Wolf in St. Petersburg and Vera Gornostaeva in Moscow, both of whom were successors to Heinrich Neuhaus's performing school. Polina maintains an active concert schedule, performing such classic composers as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, and Sergei Rachmaninoff, as well as such contemporaries as Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Georgs Pelēcis, and Pavel Karmanov. Polina has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York, Vienna's Musikverein, London's Barbican, Rome's Teatro Argentina, as well as at major concert venues and festivals all around the world.