Audiences across five continents North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Africa recognize the pianism of Daniel Pollack for its signature colors in sound, coupled with over-the-edge thrilling virtuosity, giving his performances an electrifying element that catches the imagination of concert audiences. Critics speak about his astonishing pianism, Washington Post; his dramatic tension, poignant lyricism, Diapason Magazine, Paris, France; and his torrents of sound that turned feathery flurries of delicate sounds, Los Angeles Times.
Pollack was recently featured in a profile in the New York Times headlined Piano Man, Winning Russian Hearts and Minds in which it was quoted, he is now a legend in Russia. Another profile featured in the International Herald Tribune, headlined, A Musical love affair with Russia.
Recent highlights include appearances as soloist with conductor Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg, Russia during the White Nights Festival and as soloist with such major international philharmonics as Londons Royal; Seoul, Korea; Moscow State Philharmonic, Russia; Hong Kong, China; Kiev Ukraine; Bogota, Colombia; Montevideo, Uruguay; and in the U.S., as soloist with the philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, Baltimore, San Francisco, Minnesota, among numerous others.
Additionally, Pollack has performed solo recitals in such major music centers as Londons Royal Festival Hall; Viennas Musikverein; Amsterdams Concertgebouw; Buenos Aires Teatro Colon; Seouls Arts Center; Moscows Bolshoi Zal; New Yorks Carnegie Hall; Beijings National Concert Hall; and Chicagos Orchestra Hall.
Pollack is much in demand on international competition juries. He has participated several times on the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow as well as the Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels; Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev, Ukraine; Leeds, England; Maria Callas, Athens, Greece; Hamamatsu, Japan; UNISA in Pretoria, South Africa; Anton Rubinstein, Dresden, Germany; Prokofiev, St. Petersburg, Russia; and the Rachmaninoff in Moscow, among others.
His recently released CD is on Classical Records titled Daniel Pollack in Moscow. Other CDs include COLORS on RCM label; a Grammy-nominated CD for Naxos, the complete solo piano works of Samuel Barber; an all-Chopin recital recorded in the Bolshoi Zal of the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, Russia, released on Sony as well as two CDs of popular short romantic works on Four Winds.
Pollack first garnered the music worlds attention when he became a prizewinner in the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow. Following, he concertized throughout the former Soviet Union and became the first American to record for the Melodya label, recordings that sold in the millions throughout the former Soviet Union over several decades and continue to be on the market in Russia today. Many of these recordings were re-issued worldwide under several different labels, most recently on Cambria, distributed worldwide, entitled, The Legendary Moscow Recitals recordings of Pollacks early years.
Pollack has held several visiting artist faculty positions including The Juilliard School, Columbia University and Yales School of Music. Pollack is currently on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.