Israeli violist and researcher Nethanel Pollak is a member of many musical communities around the world such as the American Viola Society, the Perlman Music Program, The Academy of Sacred Drama, Institute of Russian Music Studies, and the Israeli Musicological Society. As an early music performer, Pollak has been principal violist for the European Union Baroque Orchestra, Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra, Ensemble Phoenix, In Mixto Genere Ensemble, and Juilliard 415 ensemble. Pollak is an alumnus of the Jerusalem Academy of Music, the Juilliard School, and he recently received his D.M.A. degree from the University of Miami Frost School of Music, where he conducted a corpus research of unknown viola repertoire from the USSR.
He plays on an 1801 Lupot viola, loaned to him by the Zisapel Family Foundation.