Polina Nazaykinskaya: Emily Julie Sévilla-Fraysse & Anastasia Calmus

• Polina Nazaykinskaya: Emily:
• 1 Nazaykinskaya: Emily: I. Vivo 03:38
• 2 Nazaykinskaya: Emily: II. Con anima 04:35
• 3 Nazaykinskaya: Emily: III. Agitato 02:45
• 4 Nazaykinskaya: Emily: IV. Moderato 03:26
• 5 Nazaykinskaya: Emily: V. Grave 04:16
• Total Runtime 18:40

Info zu Polina Nazaykinskaya: Emily

Emotion explores the profound connection between movement and emotion. Folk dances, lyrical reveries and inner impulses come together in a programme that brings Chopin, Bartók, Fauré and other composers from diverse backgrounds into dialogue with Polina Nazaykinskaya's ballet suite ‘Emily’.

Julie Sévilla-Fraysse, cello
Anastasia Calmus, piano

Julie Sévilla-Fraysse
The music of award-winning composer Polina Nazaykinskaya is performed widely across the United States and Europe, celebrated for its emotional depth, lyrical power, and vibrant orchestral colors. Her symphonic poem Winter Bells remains in constant demand, performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Utah Symphony, among others.

Highlights of the 2025–2026 season include performances of Elegy XXII with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and the Waco Symphony, alongside the Canadian premiere of Reading the Wind with the Winnipeg Symphony. Her orchestral works will also appear with the Glacier Symphony (Fenix) and the Camerata di Sant’Antonio (Symphony for Strings), and the Oregon Ballet Theatre will create a new ballet based on Symphony for Strings. Two world premieres anchor the season: a violin–piano work for Wendy Sharp at Yale University and a piano solo piece for Ingrid Keller on the Belvedere Series.

Looking ahead, Nazaykinskaya is developing a new tone poem for cello and string orchestra commissioned by Julie Sevilla-Fraysse and the Orchestre de la Garde républicaine, a violin concerto for Igor Pikaizen, and a chamber work for The Merian Ensemble. Her music will also be performed by the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestras, reflecting her commitment to engaging the next generation of musicians. In recent seasons, Nazaykinskaya premiered three ballets — The Rising, Emily, and Trees — with the San Francisco Ballet and MorDance in New York City.

Her collaborators include internationally recognized choreographers Pascal Rioult, Yuri Possokhov, Jonah Bokaer, Morgan McEwen, and Ulyana Bochernikova; conductors such as Osmo Vänskä, Teodor Currentzis, Aziz Shokhakimov, Sarah Hicks, Lawrence Loh, Hannu Lintu, and David Hattner; and soloists including trombonist R. Douglas Wright, violinist Elena Korzhenevich, pianist Anton Nel, and cellist Julie Sevilla-Fraysse.

Between 2021 and 2024, Nazaykinskaya served as Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor of the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras. She has also led the British Youth Music Theatre, RIOULT Dance NY, and the University of Southern Mississippi Orchestra. In addition to her work as a composer and conductor, she is a Lecturer of Composition at Brooklyn College Conservatory (CUNY) and a Teaching Artist at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven.

She is a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA, ABD) in Composition from the CUNY Graduate Center, where her principal mentor was Tania León. She earned both a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music, studying with Christopher Theofanidis. At the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, she studied composition with Konstantin Batashov and violin with Vladimir Ivanov, receiving her Bachelor of Music degree.

With her larger chamber music works, Polina frequently turns to the tragedy of humanity's collective history, in particular, the Holocaust. Her work "Haim" is performed annually around the world and has become an important ensemble composition of the second decade of the 21st century.

For over a decade, she has shared a creative partnership with pianist and librettist Konstantin Soukhovetski; their current project, an opera commissioned by Opera Mississippi for the company’s 80th anniversary, will premiere in 2027.

Anastasia Calmus
was born in Ukraine in a family of artists. Her musical talent was revealed in early childhood when at the age of five she started playing the piano. A promising young musician, she became a prize-winner of several international competitions, and was also the featured soloist with various symphony orchestras.

Anastasia continued her musical education in Moscow, at the Gnesin State College of Music in the class of professor Maxim Zheleznov. After she successfully graduated college she made her own Theater and Music project with actor Dmitry Bozin where she was playing her own compositions and classical repertoire all over Russia and in Estonia. ​

In 2009 she was accepted to Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in the class of renowned pianist and Professor Pavel Nersessian from where she graduated in 2014 with high distinction. ​

In 2014 she started international touring as a soloist and with double bass player Catalin Rotaru(USA). They performed in Arizona State University (USA), Brazil festival “Virtuosi XVII”, Hong Kong Bass Festival, Festival in Mexico (Tijuana, Baja California) and etc. ​

In 2015 Anastasia was accepted to Conservatory named F.A. Bonporti in Trento (Italy) in the class of honored pianist and Professor Massimiliano Mainolfi for her Master degree. During the studies in Italy she was performing as a soloist with Orchestra of Trento Conservatory, played solo performance in Masonic center in Madison (USA), performed in Dubuque Music College in Iowa (USA), Hochschule fur Musik Nurnberg (Germany), Festival “Omaggio all’Arte pianistica di Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli”(Italy) and other great stages.

Since 2019 she lives in France and continues her career as a soloist and in duo with famous French cellist Julie Sevilla-Fraysse.

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