Polina Shepherd (RU/GB; voice, composition/arranging, choir conducting)
was raised in Tatarstan, Russia. While studying in the Kazan State Academy in the 1990s, she toured with Russia′s first post-Perestroika klezmer band, Simcha. By her early 20s she was a Yiddish choir and klezmer band leader, composer and touring musician.
Now living in the UK, she leads choirs, collaborates with bands, orchestras, soloists, ensembles and performs internationally. Her recent work includes touring with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, Cleveland (OH, USA), 'Folk-Cabaret' The Stranniki with Psoy Korolenko (UK-USA); live accompaniment to B&W early silent films in The Sound & Light Cinematic Duo.
She recorded for The Windermere Children and appears conducting and soloing in TV series The Crown. In theatre, most recently she's been Music Adviser and singer for the National Theatre’s Kin by Amit Lahav (UK), Music Adviser and arranger for A Secret About Joy, by Sarah Brown (Sibiu, Romania).
Since 2022, she has been Music Director of Caravan Orchestra and Choir.
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