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Position

Director of Music

Qualifications

FRCO (Royal College of Organists)
MPerf (Royal College of Music)
MSci (Cambridge)
BA (Cambridge)

Background and Previous Positions

Polina Sosnina is the Director of Music at Brasenose College, Oxford, a position she holds alongside the posts of Organist and Director of the Junior Choir at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Director of the Junior Choir at St Luke’s and Christ Church, Chelsea, and Director of Thetford Voices (www.thetfordvoices.co.uk). In July 2022, she graduated with a distinction from the Royal College of Music, where she studied organ performance with David Graham and Andy Dewar. Polina is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. Prior to her career as an organist and conductor, Polina studied Natural Sciences at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she achieved first class honours in her MSci and BA degrees.

As Organist of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Polina regularly accompanies St Martin’s Voices for concerts, recordings, and radio broadcasts. She is also an active recitalist: performances in 2023 include solo recitals at the Three Choirs Festival and St John’s Smith Square. Polina is particularly interested in Baroque organ music; she was an Emerging Artist with the London Bach Society in 2021 and performed a Bach Corner Recital at the 2019 International Organ Festival in St Alban’s.

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