The new big bone at the Gewandhaus orchestra is Polina Tarasenko, 23.
She’s from Kherson in Ukraine.
Polina was a student of Ian Bousfield at the University of Arts Bern before joining the Mendelssohn Academy at the Gewandhaus.
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