Pollack has participated on major international competition juries such as the Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Queen Elizabeth in Brussels, Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev, Ukraine; Leeds, England; Maria Callas, Athens, Greece; Jose Iturbi, Los Angeles, California; and the Rachmaninoff in Moscow, among others.

His CDs include a recent release on Classical Records; 'COLORS', on RCM; a Grammy-nominated CD for Naxos of Samuel Barber's complete solo piano works; an all-Chopin CD released by Sony, and two "crossover" CDs of popular romantic works for Four Winds, and more.

Pollack has held several artist faculty positions including The Juilliard School and Columbia University and Yale's School of Music and is now on the faculty of the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He is a graduate of the Juilliard School from the class of the legendary Rosina Lhevinne.