Prof. Dorin Marc studied with Professors Nicolae Popa and Ion Cheptea at the Bucharest Academy of Music, he was double bass player in the Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania) from 1981 to 1992.

From 1987 to 1992 he was principal double bass in the Orchestra Internationale d’Italia and from 1992 to 2003 principal double bass in the Munich Philharmonic. In 1998 he took up a teaching position at the Nuremberg-Augsburg Academy of Music, where he was appointed professor in 2003. Prof. Dorin Marc has won numerous prizes at international competitions, including first prize in Markneukirchen in 1981, the silver medal in Geneva in 1983 and first prize in Mittenwald in 1991. For many years he has been active internationally as a jury member and gives master classes. He has made numerous radio, television and sound recordings.