Marina Osman


Marina Vasilieva Starostenkova Osman, is a Belarusian classical and jazz concert pianist.

Biography

Early life and studies

Marina Vasilieva was born in 1965 in Polotsk, Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in a family of musicians. Her mother Lydia Ivanovna Vasilieva was a bayan player, a choirmaster and a singing/vocal teacher and her father Viktor Semenovich Vasiliev was a theoretician, graduate of the Gnessin State Musical College.
After moving to Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula, Starostenkova started her music studies in 1980 at Murmansk College of Arts, entering a piano class. In 1984, she graduated with distinction after completing the full academic course in the speciality fortepiano and was given the qualification of teacher of a music school and concertmaster.
During her studies in Murmansk, she became laureate of the Regional Contest of the soloist-pianist in the North-West region of the USSR and the winner of the Contest of Soloist-Pianists held in Murmansk.
In the same year, she entered the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk in the speciality fortepiano in the class of professor Leonid Petrovich Yushkevich in which she stayed until 1990.

Career

Whilst she studied in Minsk, from 1989, she became a piano teacher and concertmaster in Novopolotsk State Musical College in Novopolotsk.
She was granted the higher pedagogical and concertmaster categories in 1993. She worked from 1989 to 2010 at Novopolotsk State Musical College and prepared 40 students including her daughter, Yulia Starostenkova, to enter the Belarusian State Academy of Music, and at other musical superior institutions and colleges in Russia and Belarus. Yulia Starostenova won 2nd prize at Chopin republican contest in 2005. Some of her students entered the German universities of Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Most of her students were laureates of the music contest for young interpreters of music for the piano, interregional piano contest, regional contest in Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and made "a huge historical and creative contribution to development of the college".
N. Kushnarova and Marina Starostenkova were laureate of the republican contest of creative works forming a duet.
She was a member of the jury of the third International Chamber ensemble competition "Nova Musica" in Daugavpils.
Starostenkova took part in concerts both in Belarus and Russia, and also in jazz festivals in Germany, Poland, Lithuania and Russia in 2009.
In September of the same year, she was invited to Moscow to participate in radio recordings of Swedish violinist 's radio programs at radio Orpheus a Russian classical music station, before continuing to give concerts in December 2009 in Moscow with him and Andreï Chistyakov.
Now in England, Marina Osman frequently gives concerts at the Pushkin House in London and has given piano and theory lessons since 2011. Marina Osman participates in the music band Kara and gives concerts with the band as a pianist.
In 2019, Marina Osman has won the 2019 Folking awards in the "Best musician" category.

Awards and diplomas

Starostenkova has been awarded:
In 2008, Starostenkova was invited to Saint Petersburg to shoot the film Ad Libitum with musicologist and violinist Andreï Chistyakov.

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