Maestra • For the women who make the music in the musical theater industry.

Biography

Polina Senderova is a Music Director and Multi-instrumentalist from New York City. From ages 6 to 18, she studied classical piano and violin at Manhattan School of Music Precollege. She then attended Northwestern University, where she got a Bachelor’s Degree from Medill School of Journalism, and spent much of her time involved with musical activities on campus.
Her final year of college, she got hired by Howl at the Moon, a national Dueling Pianos chain, with which, over the next few years, she worked all over the country studying how to sing, play drums and bass guitar, and perform hundreds of songs on multiple instruments. After that, she took to the seas, working as a singing pianist on Holland America Line cruise ships, as part of a popular show called “Billboard Onboard.” Since then, she has performed both all over the country and abroad, and has music directed a number of projects in the NYC area.
She is currently getting her Master’s in Musical Theatre Music Direction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.