Mark Kovnatskiy

Mark Kovnatskiy is a widely traveled and highly acclaimed violinist, composer, lecturer, and expert in Yiddish dances based in Hamburg, Germany.

He is at the head of a generation that has saved the sensitive playing style of the old Klezmorim for the present and developed it further. He has performed and taught at many music festivals around the world from the USA and Canada to Japan.
 
Mark has worked with orchestras such as the Musica Viva (RU), Augsburger Philharmoniker  (GER),  Aurora Orchestra (UK),  INSO Lviv (UA), Weimar Staatskapelle (GER), and Kölner Akademie (GER), as well as with the choir Schola Kantorum Weimar (GER).
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Mark Kovnatskiy is the ambassador of the ACCORD CASE company (Croatia) and the STRING KING company (Sweden).
 
His own compositions are performed by various musical projects (both klezmer and classical) around the world, including musicians from the San Francisco Symphony (USA) and Neue Philharmonie Westfalen (GER).