Polina Medyulyanova is a multifaceted composer whose creativity covers a wide range of musical genres, from vocal and instrumental miniatures to monumental symphonic and oratorical works. Her unique and attractive musical style, based on the interweaving of elements inspired by many different sources, including Gregorian chant and traditional music of the Middle East and Central Asia, expresses highly individual philosophical concepts, and has generated considerable interest from public and musical researchers alike.

Polina Medyulyanova’s music have been performed in festivals in the USA, Asia and Europe, such as Gaudeamus Music Week (the Netherlands 2003-4, 2008), Ilkhom XI (Uzbekistan, 2000-2005), East Meets West (Italy 2003-4 and 2010), World Sun Songs (Latvia, 2008), the World Choral Symposium (Denemark, 2008), Maroon Setting (Alaska, 2008), New Paths in Music (USA, 2010), Überlass es der Zeit as a part of the exhibition Fontane lesen – mach dir ein Bild davon (Germany, 2019), Tribute to Saxophonist Elise Hall 100 Years (France 2024) and Parallel 40´ (Germany and The Netherlands 2024-2025).

Her works have been broadcast by BBC3, Netherlands Radio, KTOO FM Alaska, Deutschlandrundfunk, Latvijas Radio Klasika and the TV and Broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan. Many of her works are recorded under the direction of her father, Viktor Medyulyanov, who was principal conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of the Ministry of Cultural and Sport Affairs of Uzbekistan until 2014.

Polina Medyulyanova’s Refractions won Second Prize in the Fanny Mendelssohn Competition (Germany, 2006), and she received Honorable Mention in the Gaudeamus Competition (Netherlands, 2003, for Ave Maris Stella), and the Golden Hanukah Competition (Russia, 2005, for Hitgalut/Revelatio).

After studies in composition with Mikhail Bagdanov and Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky and piano by Charita Satanovskaya at the Uspensky Academic Musical Lyceum in Tashkent between 1981 and 1992, Polina Medyulyanova joined the composition class of  Felix Yanov-Yanovsky and piano class of Sabi Abdullaev at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan, graduating in 1997. Her final exam project, the ballet Abyss, was premiered in the Ilhom Theatre, Tashkent.  Her post-graduate studies at the same institute culminated in a Magnificat for mezzo-soprano, female choir and string orchestra, premiered in The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Tashkent, Usbekistan.

Scholarships from the Mariann-Steegmann Foundation, (Zurich), the Laudate Cantate Foundation (Bremen) and the Sweelinck Foundation (Amsterdam), enabled Polina to study in a Master Program in the Composition Department of the Amsterdam Conservatory under Wim Hendricks and Fabio Nieder in 2005-7. For the final examination, she presented a program of her sacred music, including two solo organ pieces (Shepping and Refractions) and Chapter I from The Gospel of St. John for singers, chamber ensemble and organ at St. Bavo Kerk, Haarlem.

During these studies, Polina did elective courses in organ with Jacques van Oortmerssen and conducting with Sam ten Velden, which enabled her to participate in the final examination as conductor and organist as well. At the same time, she attended piano and chamber music lessons in the Netherlands and Germany with Rudolf Jansen, Alexander Malter, Semjon Skigin and Michael Denhoff.

Her ability to write sympathetically and idiomatically for the voice and a large range of musical instruments has led to fruitful collaborations with many solo performers, conductors and ensembles, including Elizabeth Wilson and the Xenia Quartet (Italy), The Carducci Quartet (Ireland), Markus Hochuli (Swiss), Olivia Vermeulen (The Nethrlands), Raaf Hekkema and Nora Mulder (The Netherlands), Romain Bischoff and VocaalLAB (Netherlands), Bas Wiegers and Nieuw Ensemble (Netherlands), Raphaela Danksagmüller and Ensemble Zerafin (Netherlands), Delta Saxophone Quartet (UK), Jan Schulte-Bunert and Clair-Obscure Saxophone Quartet (Germany), Maris Sirmais  and Choir Kamer… (Latvia), Luis Aguirre and Sonor Ensemble (Spain), Loic Pierre and Chor Mikrokosmos (France), Viktor Medyulyanov and Chamber Orchestra of the TV and Broadcasting Company of Uzbekistan, Henrik Schaefer and Holland Symphonia (Netherlands).

Since 2011, the main area of her creativity has been chamber music in close collaboration with mezzo-sopranos Antje Siefert (Germany), Dorothea Kares (Germany), Gudrún Ólafsdóttir (Iceland) and Sigrid Wiedemann (Germany), guitarist Francisco Javier Jáuregui (Spain), pianist Boris Schönleber (Germany), harpist Beatrice Guillermin (France), the Belifante String Quartet (Netherlands) and saxophonists Nicolas Prost,  Alexandre Souillart and Philippe Geiss (France).

As pianist and composer, Polina Medyulyanova founded a duo in Amsterdam in 2006 for the performance of classical and modern music with singer Antje Siefert (Germany), for whom she composed most of her works to the poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. The fruitful collaboration has lead Duo Siefert-Medyulyanova to concerts throughout Europe in halls such as the Schumannhaus in Bonn, Germany and the Rilke Foundation in Sierra/Sieders, Switzerland.

Apart of her activities as composer, pianist and teacher, Polina Medyulyanova is currently studying Music Therapy at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede in the Netherlands.

Her credo as a professional musician and novelist music therapist is her strong believe that music is a unique and universal resource-activating and communication tool, a source of energy and an oasis of calm in our frenetic world. This fact motivates her again and again to be involved in new projects and to explore fresh horizons.