Nurit Stark
Winner of the 2023 Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording, Israeli violinist and violist Nurit Stark has an international career as a soloist, chamber musician, and advocate for contemporary music. The award-winning recording features works for solo instrument by Béla Bartók, Peter Eötvös, György Ligeti, and Sándor Veress.
She studied music in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Cologne with Haim Taub, Ilan Gronich, and the Alban Berg Quartet. As a soloist, Stark has performed with prestigious orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Munich Radio Orchestra, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of India, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and the Transylvania Philharmonic. She has also served as guest concertmaster of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne.
A passionate chamber musician, Stark has performed at festivals such as Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, Wien Modern, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Milano Musica, and West Cork. She has performed in major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Tonhalle in Zurich. She has also taken part in experimental musical theater productions at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Volksbühne in Berlin, the MC93 in Bobigny, and the Gessnerallee in Zurich, integrating the violin into interdisciplinary stage works.
Deeply committed to contemporary music, Stark has premiered numerous works and collaborated closely with composers such as Sofia Gubaidulina, György Kurtág, Peter Eötvös, Peter Ablinger, Carola Bauckholt, Manos Tsangaris, Georg Nussbaumer, Salvatore Sciarrino, Beat Furrer, Isabel Mundry, Jennifer Walshe, Daniel Rothman, and Valentin Silvestrov.
Stark has made numerous recordings for BIS, Claves, and Genuin Records. His recording of Kurtág’s *Kafka-Fragmente* with soprano Caroline Melzer received the German Record Critics’ Award in 2015.
From 2019 to 2024, Stark was a violin instructor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, and from 2022 to 2026, she held a professorship at the Haute École de Musique de Genève. She plays a Pietro Guarneri violin from Mantua, made in 1710.