Karen Bentley Pollick

Karen Bentley Pollick is one of America’s leading contemporary musicians, performing a wide range of solo repertoire and styles on violin, viola, piano and Norwegian hardingfele. Within the Bay Area, she has performed extensively with the Dresher Ensemble and recently played the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Redwood Symphony. Internationally, she has performed in countries including Australia, England, Lithuania, and Mexico. In 2018, she made a recording with the National Orchestra of Ukraine and in 2022, she performed a concert “Homage to Ukraine” featuring music by Ukrainian composers Virko Baley and Ludmila Yurina at Stanford University’s CCRMA. Her most recent album with the Lithuanian National Symphony, Concertos from the Caucasus, received gold medals in the 2025 Global Music Awards.