Gyorgy Pauk

György Pauk
Born	1936
Genres	classical
Occupation(s)	violinist, educator
Instruments	violin

György Pauk (born 26 October 1936 Budapest) is a Hungarian violinist, chamber musician and music pedagogue.

Pauk was Born in Budapest, Hungary, entered the Franz Liszt Academy of Music at age nine. He began his studies as Imre Waldbauer's pupil in 1945. From 1947-1949 he studied with János Temesváry, and from 1949 till he graduated at the Academy with Ede Zathureczky, and he studied under Zoltán Kodály.

In 1956 he left Hungary for the Netherlands and, after being persuaded by violinist Yehudi Menuhin, he permanently settled in London in 1961.

Since then he has performed as concerto soloist with renowned orchestras and maestros around the world, with Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Simon Rattle and Sir Georg Solti. He has also recorded. He has premiered works by Witold Lutosławski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and Sir Michael Tippett conducted by the composers themselves.

As a chamber musician Pauk has a very wide repertoire, it includes all the Mozart sonatas – which he also recorded – the Schubert sonatas, and Bartók's works written for the violin. Pauk and pianist Peter Frankl formed a long-term collaboration with cellist Ralph Kirshbaum. Pauk and Frankl have been permanent partners since they were children. They studied chamber music with Leo Weiner. The BBC commissioned Fourteen Little Pictures by James MacMillan to mark the 25th anniversary of their trio in 1997.

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