Mark Karlinsky studied with Anna Rosnovsky at the ‘Musicians for Tomorrow’ school (founded by Maxim Vengerov), continuing with Irina Etigon (a former student of David Oistrakh) and with Michaela Martin at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin. In Israel he has participated since 2015 in the Jerusalem Music Centre’s programme for outstanding young musicians. He has been supported by scholarships from the America-Israel Foundation, Buchman-Heyman Foundation, and the Zfunot Tarbut Foundation. Karlinsky has appeared as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic and Israel Camerata orchestras, and performed throughout Europe, and in New York at the Lincoln Center and the UN headquarters. In 2020-2021 he took part in the TONALi Academy, a creative artists’ community based in Hamburg.

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