Marina Osman

Marina Vasilieva Starostenkova Osman (; born 1965 in Polotsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union), 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.

After moving to Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula, Starostenkova started her music studies in 1980 at Murmansk College of Arts (former Murmank Music School), 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. 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,

N. Kushnarova and Marina Starostenkova were laureate of the republican contest of creative works forming a duet. 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: The lapel badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus for the contribution to the cultural evolution of Belarus Diploma for exquisite concertmaster skills at the Republic's open contest of folk instruments in Grodno (2009)

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