Israeli-born violinist and violist Nurit Stark studied with Ilan Gronich at the Berlin University of the Arts, with the Alban Berg Quartet at the University of Music Cologne, with Haim Taub at the Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, and with Robert Mann at the Juilliard School in New York.

As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta, the Munich Radio Orchestra under Dmitry Sitkovetsky, the Bremen Philharmonic, the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of India, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and the orchestra of the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater.

She has appeared at festivals including the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Donaueschingen Festival, and the International Chekhov Theatre Festival in Moscow. As both a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in major concert halls throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and Israel, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.

Stark is equally devoted to historically informed performance practice and contemporary music. She regularly collaborates with composers including György Kurtág, Peter Ablinger, Isabel Mundry, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Walshe, Salvatore Sciarrino, Carola Bauckholt, Beat Furrer, Valentin Silvestrov, Samir Odeh-Tamimi, and Brett Dean; directors including Peter Sellars, David Marton and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg; visual artists including Ian Robson and Julie Mehretu; numerous instrumentalists and singers including Caroline Melzer, Viktoriia Vitrenko and Jelena Kuljić; artists working with live electronics including Andrea Neumann and Denis Poissonier; and interdisciplinary artists including Georg Nussbaumer, Peter Ablinger, Daniel Rothman and Manos Tsangaris. She has given numerous world premieres.

Her long-standing commitment to contemporary and transdisciplinary forms of artistic performance is grounded in a distinctive Hungarian-Romanian musical education based on interval singing, a rich concept of sound and the qualities of traditional folk music.

She has been a prizewinner at the George Enescu Competition in Bucharest, the Leopold Mozart Competition in Augsburg and the Ibolyka Gyarfas Competition in Berlin. Together with soprano Caroline Melzer, she received the German Record Critics’ Award for their BIS Records recording of György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments.

From an early stage in her career, Stark has also been passionate about supporting and mentoring younger generations of musicians and regularly gives international masterclasses. In 2019, she was appointed Professor of Violin at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts Stuttgart, where until 2024 she developed collaborations with Campus Gegenwart, particularly in the field of experimental performance, as well as with the drama school, the composition department and the Studio Neue Musik.

From 2023 to 2026, she held a further professorship in violin at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, where she initiated numerous projects bringing together students from across the institution. She also involves both current and former students in her concert and performance projects. Since summer 2026, she has been a member of the faculty at the Yellow Barn summer festival in Vermont, USA, where she works with participants in the Young Artists Program.

She plays a 1710 violin by Petrus Guarnerius of Mantua.