Estonian violinist Mari-Liis Pakk has appeared around the world as soloist and chamber musician. A laureate of international competitions including Heifetz (Vilnius), Wieniawski (Lublin, Poland), and Dombrowski (Riga), she has been heard in concert throughout western Europe and the Baltic countries as well as across the U.S.

Mrs. Pakk has performed as soloist with orchestras in Estonia as well as with the Meadows Symphony in Dallas and, as winner of the European String Teachers Association competition, gave a solo recital at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris. She has appeared frequently in the Netherlands as a two-time recipient of a grant to the International Holland Music Sessions and has appeared at festivals including the Salzburg Mozarteum, Eilat, and Burg Feistritz.

She performs at the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia in collaboration with Paavo Järvi in which capacity she has appeared as soloist with Ivry Gitlis and premiered a work of Helena Tulve with bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann. Mrs. Pakk has collaborated in chamber music with Charles Abramovic, Luis Biava, Andres Diaz, David Ehrlich, Christopher Rex, and Nathaniel Rosen as well as alongside the Amernet String Quartet.

She was a soloist with FIU’s NODUS Ensemble at Cervantino Festival in Guanajuato, Mexico and has given recitals at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Mrs. Pakk is as well a committed teacher of violin and viola, having given masterclasses at numerous institutions. She maintained an active studio at the Leopold Mozart Academy outside Philadelphia and at Temple University’s Music Preparatory division. She was the orchestra director at Miami Arts Charter School – Homestead. Currently Mrs. Calloway is the director of orchestras at Gulliver Academy in Miami. She is a native of Tartu, Estonia.