
Violist, Researcher, EDUCATOR
Israeli violist and researcher Netanel Pollak is a member of many musical communities around the world such as the American Viola Society, the Perlman Music Program, The Academy of Sacred Drama (USA), Musique a Flaine (France), and Aurora (Sweden). As an early music performer, Pollak has been principal violist for the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix, In Mixto Genere Ensemble (Israel), and Juilliard 415 ensemble. Pollak is an alumnus of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, the Juilliard School, and he recently received his D.M.A. degree from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he conducted a corpus research of unknown viola repertoire from the USSR. He plays on an 1801 Lupot viola, loaned to him by the Zisapel Family Foundation.
About
WHAT NETANEL DOES

PERFORMANCES
October 25-29, 2025 8:00pm
K'dusha, Jewish Baroque
With the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, on period instruments
Locations: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Karmiel, Givat Brenner
October 19th, 2025 8:00pm
Arensky's Strig Quartet no.2 op. 35 (the Cello Quartet)
With members of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, on period instruments
Location: Haifa Museum of Art, 24 Shabtai Halevi Street, Haifa
September 13th, 2025 8:30pm
A Rare Performance of the F. Giardini Viola Sonata
With Harpsichordist Jonathan Berk, on period instruments
Location: Immanuel Church, 15 Beeri Hoffman Street, Jaffa
free entry
September 17th, 2025 4:00pm
'The Witches' Minuet', String Quartets by Lombardini and Haydn
Part of the JBO Witches? Festival. With members of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, on period instruments
Location: Hansen House, 14 Gdalyahu Alon Street, Jerusalem
August 18th, 2025 8:00pm
'The Witches' Minuet', String Quartets by Lombardini and Haydn
With members of the Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, on period instruments
Location: Studio Tzlil-Na, 1 Megido Street, Haifa
free entry
July 11th, 2025 11:00am
Lecture: Pamyati Shostakovicha: Soviet Works for Viola in Memory of Shostakovich, and in Light of his Deathbed Sonata
Presented at the Institute of Russian Music Studies Conference
Location: Vigil Raber Saal, Vipiteno, Italy
May 22nd, 2025 8:00pm
'Parisian Obsessions', house concert with Trio Mona
Music by A. Blanc, Ch. Baudiot, and Beethoven
Location: Haran Family, Weizman Institute, Rehovot
tickets upon privet inquiry