Zolinsky won the first prize in the San Francisco International Piano Concerto Competition.
He has worked with conductors including Diego Masson, Martyn Brabbins, Nicholas Cleobury, Ronald Corp and Simon Joly.
[2] He has worked with composers including Simon Holt, Louis Andriessen, Poul Ruders, Michael Finnissy, Martin Butler and John Godfrey.
In 2005 he gave the first performance of a new set of pieces specially written for Zolinsky by Michael Zev Gordon.
In 2005 he gave the London premiere, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and of Unsuk Chin's Piano Concerto.