György Pauk

György Pauk ( born October 26, 1936 in Budapest) is a Hungarian violinist.

Pauk studied at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After winning several international violin competitions including the Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa, the Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris and the Sonata Competition of the ARD in Munich, he went in 1961 to London. He debuted in 1962 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel. This was the start of the international career of the musician, who is in the tradition of the Hungarian violin school of József Szigeti, Zoltán Székely and Ede Zathureczky. He has performed under conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Klaus Tennstedt, Leonard Slatkin and Charles Dutoit. In 1971, he debuted at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the USA.

In addition to the violin works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert and Bartók Pauks repertoire also includes contemporary composers such as Witold Lutoslawski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Maxwell Davies, Michael Tippett and William Mathias. He is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Winterthur Conservatory. As a chamber musician he has worked with Peter Frankl and Ralph Kirshbaum.

• Classical violinist
• University teachers (ZHdK Winterthur)
• Hungarian
• Born in 1936
• Man