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Nurit Pacht was chosen by France's "Le Monde de la Musique" as one of the "Stars of the Year 2000". She has been presented at many of the world’s most renowned concert halls, including London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Great Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, The People’s Hall of Beijing, China and was a ‘Rising Star’ in Ravinia. She has been featured in concerts and festivals in over twenty countries worldwide winning critical acclaim.

As the star of the stage director Robert Wilson’s multi-media piece, Relative Light, Nurit performed solo works by J.S. Bach and John Cage throughout Spain and Italy. The Spanish press hailed “an absolutely brilliant violinist: What virtuosity! What enchantment! What talent!” This unique show has toured many cities of Spain and Italy.

Nurit Pacht has toured as soloist with the Israeli Chamber Orchestra. She also performed the world premiere of Noam Sheriff's Violin Concerto "Dibrot", a work dedicated to her, with the Israeli Contemporary Players in a radio broadcast from Jerusalem and in the Contemporary Music Festival in Tel-Aviv. Nurit was also the soloist on a tour of China of the Young Israel Philharmonic performing in the major concert venues of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Nurit grew up in Texas and at the age of 12 made her first solo public appearance on National Television. In 1990, at age seventeen, she made her U.S. solo debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and has since won top prizes in international competitions in Europe and the United States, including the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland.

In the spring of 1996, immediately following the cease-fire, Nurit concertized in six of the worst war-devastated cities of Bosnia to enthusiastic audiences of the three ethnic minorities, with the sponsorship of the United Nations and the European Mozart Foundation. At the invitation of the European Commission she also performed on the occasion of the inauguration of the European Monetary Union in Bruxelles. She was heard at the Mecklenberg Vorpommern Festival, Divonne Festival, Festival of Stresa, Kfar Blum, George Crumb Festival, Sante Fe Music Festival and, at the invitation of Christoff Eschenbach, performed in Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series.

The orchestras engaging Nurit as soloist in the United States include the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic and Santa Rosa Symphony. In Italy she performed with the Filarmonica di Roma, in Poland and Germany with the Wroclaw Chamber Orchestra and with most of the major orchestras of Romania including the Georges Enesco Philharmonic.

Nurit performed in duo recitals with Philip Glass the works of the composer for violin and piano. With Russian pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, she performed at Milan’s Societe dei Concerti and returned to Wigmore Hall to premiere the compositions of Central European Jewish composers exiled in the UK. This performance has been commercially released on the Nimbus Label. On her own label, Sound Expectations, she has recorded an all Mozart CD and her debut album with music by Ravel, Franck and Messiaen will be released on the Quartz label this season.

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