Mark Kovnatskiy is a widely traveled and highly acclaimed Hamburg-based violinist, composer, lecturer, and expert in Yiddish dances. 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).
He is the ambassador of the companies:
ACCORD CASE (HR)
STRING KING (SE)
MEZZO FORTE (GER).
His own compositions are performed by various musicians (both klezmer and classical) around the world, including Steven Greenman (USA), the members of the San Francisco Symphony (USA), the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen (GER), Klezmer Loshn (FR), and Dreydel Orchestra (JPN).