Born in 1991 in Moldova, Dumitru Pocitari started his music studies at the age of seven. Between 2000-2012, he won numerous prizes and medals at international violin competitions in Romania, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, as well as second prize at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Competition (2012). He has participated in master classes with Phillipe Bride, Bujor Prelipcean, Serban Lupu, Zakhar Bron, Julian Rachlin, Alexandra Soumm, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Pinchas Zukerman. Dumitru Pocitari has participated in international music festivals in Belarus and Moscow. He has appeared as soloist under the baton of Vladimir Spivakov at the Ascending Star in the Kremlin Festival and under the baton of Zubin Mehta with the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra in their 2013 gala concert and with the Israel Philharmonic. A member of the Israel Philharmonic since 2014, he was appointed as Concertmaster in 2019.