Karolina Protsenko

About

Karolina Mykolayivna Protsenko (Ukrainian: Кароліна Миколаївна Проценко; born October 3, 2008), known since July 2025 as Karolina Rose, is a Ukrainian violinist and pianist performing contemporary pop music in the United States. She is an internet celebrity, and records street performance of music, primarily at Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California.

Karolina Protsenko was born in Ukraine. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Protsenko, play the guitar and piano, respectively. She has two brothers, Leo (born 2018) and Nicholas (born 2021). In 2015, when Karolina was six years old, her family moved to California.
Protsenko began playing the violin in 2014, at the age of 6, having received lessons, and mainly performs violin versions of contemporary pop songs.
In 2017, the family started doing live performances on the streets of Santa Monica, California, primarily within Third Street Promenade. In 2021 Classic FM noted a video of Protsenko and her pianist mother performing an arrangement of Ludovico Einaudi’s “Experience,” and reported that “Her spirited string-filled renditions of classical favourites and pop songs have earned her upwards of 800 million views.”
In 2019…