about
Polina Savicka (b.2002) is a Latvian-born composer and pianist based in Birmingham and London. She predominantly works with acoustic instruments, and her music often explores the natural world and our relation to it, folklore and ritual, as well as the nuances of being human. Her creative practice involves music across contemporary classical music and groove-based music, exploring the ways in which classical performers and improvising musicians from non-classical disciplines can come together collectively. In 2025, she wrote a collection of works titled ‘Sew The Land’ where she began to draw on personal themes of immigration, memory and their connection to the ever-shifting landscape, and this is something she continues to explore in my work. Alongside this Polina has scored a number of films and is currently scoring several upcoming short films by West Midlands-based filmmakers.
She was the winner of the John Halford Composition Prize in 2023, and was highly commended in the 2022 Gladys Puttick Improvisation Competition and the BBC Young Composer Competition in 2019.
Polina graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where she holds a BMus First Class in Composition.
She also teaches piano, music theory, and composition online and in Birmingham. To enquire about lessons please use the form on the lessons page.
