About

Lila Pollack is an accomplished violinist who made her solo debut at eight years old. Since then she has performed at venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Barge Music, Merkin Hall, St. Martin in the Fields, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Symphony Space, Saratoga Performing Arts Center and in countries outside the U.S. including Spain, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Wales, China and Holland.

She is on faculty at Avenues: The World School as the Strings Teacher for Lower and Middle School, The Diller- Quaile School of Music, The Noel Pointer Foundation, and also instructs her private studio while still fulfilling her many other professional obligations.

Lila has played with a number of orchestras as Principal in various venues, including the Hong Kong Festival Orchestra; the Spitalfields Summer Festival and Pierre Boulez Festival; the Orpheus Sinfonia; and the Orion Foundation Orchestra, including on its 2011 summer tour to Aberystwyth, Wales. She performed with Manhattan Symphonie on their April 2014 tour to China as Principal Second.

Lila received a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance from Eastman School of Music where she studied with Mikhail Kopelman and Charlie Castleman. She served as Concertmaster of Eastman's Philharmonia Orchestra for two years. Lila graduated from Royal Academy of Music (London, England) with a Masters degree in violin performance while studying with Hu Kun, the only protege of Yehudi Menuhin. There she earned her licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music (LRAM) teaching certificate. She is an avid chamber musician and was awarded the Wolfe Wolfinsohn Quartet Prize in 2011.

Music

Depending on what kind of ensemble you would like to play at your GroupMuse event, we can adapt the repertoire to meet your needs :) Groups I play with have performed music that includes the following: Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Handel, Haydn, LeClair, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, etc.

Past groupmuses (3)