Pollack began his studies at the age of four
and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of nine,
performing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1. He is a graduate of the Juilliard
School from the class of the legendary Rosina Lhevinne, herself a graduate of
the Moscow Conservatory. Pollack continued his graduate studies at the
Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna under a Fulbright scholarship with Bruno
Seidlhofer, at the Academia Chigiana, in Siena, Italy with Guido Agosti and was
selected as one of 12 pianists internationally to participate in a special
Beethoven Master Class of the late Wilhelm Kempff in Positano, Italy. Pollack
first garnered the music world's attention when he became a prize-winner in the
International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. His concert career has
taken him worldwide across five continents - North America, Europe, Asia, South
America and Africa. Highlight appearances as soloist with major orchestras in
the U.S. include the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore
Symphony ; and worldwide, Moscow State Philharmonic, St. Petersburg, Russia,
London's Royal Philharmonic, Bergen Symphony, Norway, Seoul Philharmonic, Hong
Kong Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra of among others. Pollack has
performed solo recitals in the major music centers of the world including
London's Royal Festival Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw,
Buenos Aires' Teatro Colon, Moscow's Bolshoi Zal, New York's Carnegie Hall and
many other. Pollack is much in demand on international competition juries. He
has participated several times on the International Tchaikovsky Piano
Competition held in Moscow as well as on the Queen Elizabeth in Brussels;
Montreal, Canada, Leeds , England; Ciurlionis, Vilnius, Lithuania; Gina
Bachauer, Salt Lake City ; Hamamatsy and Sonoda Competition in Japan; UNISA in
Pretoria, South Africa; Prokofiev in St.Petersburg; and the Rachmaninoff in
Moscow Pollack has held several visiting faculty positions including The
Juilliard School, Columbia University and Yale's School of Music. Presently he
is on the faculty of the University of Southern California.