Cultivating Aspiring Artists Crafting Excellence Building Confidence Nurturing Creativity Conquering Anxiety

Aleksandr Polyakov

Cultivating Aspiring Artists

Nurturing Creativity Building Confidence

EDUCATOR PIANIST CONDUCTOR

Combining:

interdisciplinary education, mindful learning practices, and uplifting events & performances to reshape communities and create engaging learning spaces — one interaction at a time.

News and Updates (Jan 2025)

– Join for 4 Free Public Events in January-April, 2025

– Check back on January 31 2025 for further Updates and News

I’ve been researching and creating interdisciplinary solutions to our regular, performance-based, and pedagogical challenges for decades.

if YOU are finding yourself struggling with -

Inefficient Practice
ineffective techniques that hamper progress.
Performance Anxiety
high stress and fear before and during performances
Ineffective Conducting Technique
that doesn’t serve you and your musicians, putting a hold on rehearsal efficiency

or if YOU are looking -

To Collaborate – Chamber music or other educational or creative projects
To Hire a Musician – to provide an vibrant performance for your community
for a Conductor – to prepare the orchestra for a performance
for a Public Speaker – pre-concert talk or engaging event at your venue
For Mentorship, Coaching, or Private Tutoring

I look forward to connecting with YOU

Notes from AP (Jan 7, 2025)

Welcome to my website! It is currently going through renovations and updates.
Full functionality should be achieved by the end of this month.

At this time I invite you to explore this page and about me section, where you can find my full bio, piano and orchestral repertoire (in respective pages) as well as my work as an educator in academia (educator page includes syllabi of the courses that I’ve created and taught most recently).

If there is anything that I can do for you, your community & organization, or there is another way you would like to creatively collaborate – please do not hesitate to reach out, or find me on social media.

apolyakov@berklee.edu

facebook.com/flugelwanderer

Youtube.com/flugelwanderer

My Personal Story

January 2025 marks my thirty-fourth year of pursuing mastery in piano performance. From the age of 3, I saw myself as a performer, dedicating my life to one facet of life, and one facet only – music making. As time passed by, concerts and competitions turned memories of excitement and stress into bullet points in the CV and setbacks started to outweigh the sense of fulfillment, I began to expand areas of interest. First, it was orchestral, or in particular operatic conducting that will always excite me the most, as the Everest of music making and artistic collaboration. Teaching followed suit soon after.

It is through academic work, post-graduation, that I discovered my passion and curiosity for knowledge-seeking, personal adaptability, and skill for holistically synthesizing methods and practices. I discovered much information and missing pieces of the puzzles that I wish I had been exposed to at the time when I was a student, instead of just going through the motions of exploiting talent by quickly learning pieces of music and (on occasion) flawlessly performing them.

Ever since,

I’ve been dedicating my life to mentoring and supporting those around me, to help them to avoid shortcomings that I had to learn the hard way (despite rigorous work without national holidays and vacations – like it is expected of any, merely serious, performing instrumentalist).
I’ve been dedicating my energy to always creating a positive learning & rehearsing space, where there is no place for toxicity, honesty, or cruelty.
I’ve been dedicating my efforts to learning more about what can be useful to me and what I believe is critically important for my students.

Whether you and I will ever directly interact, it is my hope that you will find something positively impactful on this website or other sources, and that’s one of the primary reasons behind my creating this and other resources. In the end, please remember that the only thing that can stop you from being what you want to become – is you and your actions.

Unless one acts on it, having knowledge (or education) is worse than not having one.