Pollyester

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Pollyester at an appearance in the Kammerspiele (2015)

Pollyester is the band around the Munich musician and performance artist Polina Lapkovskaja (born 1982 in Minsk ), the drummer Manuel da Coll, the keyboardist Benedikt Brachtel and the sound engineer Benjamin Mathias.

Life

Polina Lapkovskaja came to Munich with her mother in 1993 and studied jazz double bass at the Richard Strauss Conservatory . She dropped out of studies after two years and made a name for herself in the Munich subculture as a performance artist, singer, composer and musician. She also performed under the pseudonym Koshka Valerianka . She played and plays in various bands and artist collectives, including Pollyester , Munk , Kamerakino , Salewski & Band and Convertible . Since 2004 she has been organizing the Zombocombo , a monthly series of parties and performances. In 2008 Peter Kastenmüller hired her for the first time as a theater musician for the Illegal project , after which she regularly performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele , and also at the Theater Basel and the Residenztheater Munich .

In 2010 Pollyester realized the Pollyester Parking Lot project at the Münchner Kammerspiele , a staged junkyard where concerts and performances took place. In 2011 her album Earthly Powers was released . In 2014 she created the incidental music for Stephan Kimmig's production of Tales from the Vienna Woods by Ödön von Horváth at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Again with Kimmig, she was hired by the Salzburg Festival in 2015 for the music to Goethe's Clavigo , a coproduction with the Deutsches Theater Berlin .

In 2013 she received the Music Prize of the City of Munich .

Discography

Albums

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Polina Lapkovskaja alias Pollyester - parking lot for the gang . Retrieved August 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ The Music Prize of the City of Munich 2013 to Ardhi Engl, Kofelgschroa, Polina Lapkovskaja, Johannes X. Schachtner . Retrieved August 21, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Pollyester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lapkovskaja, Polina (real name); Lapkovskaja, Polly; Valerianka, Koshka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Musician and performance artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Minsk