Polina Imas – Opera vocalist – Chicago, IL

Polina Imas is the director of Kinor Center, Chicago IL. Polina began playing the violin when she was six, she studied at the Music Institute of Chicago and pursued a double major in music performance and engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston IL. She is a recipient of Winnetka Music Club Scholarship, Bel Canto Foundation, National Association of Teachers of Singing and the Society of American Musicians awards. While observing an Orff music class Polina noticed how naturally children absorb information presented in a musical context which led her to explore music education as a means of helping children develop language, literacy, focus and group participation skills. With this goal in mind she started Kinor Center to serve the Jewish community of Chicagoland. Since then, Polina has designed and directed fine arts programs at several Chicago Jewish day schools, where she taught Suzuki Violin, choir and Music Literacy classes based on Orff, Kodaly and Eurhythmics approaches. As a part of Kinor center’s effort to use Jewish music as a basis for music education, she worked with Chicagoland musical professionals to develop music curriculums for a variety of instruments as well as group music literacy classes based entirely on Jewish musical material.

The Kinor Center – Music School in Chicago