Born in Tel Aviv in 1976, Leor Maltinski began playing the violin at age six. He studied with Igor Polesitsky in Florence from 1985 to 1993 and then moved to the United States to continue his musical education,

Leor Maltinski also studied at the Juilliard School with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki, and with Herbert Greenberg at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Mr. Maltinski is a prizewinner of the "N. Paganini"