György Pauk

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

Pauk studied at the Budapest Music Academy . After winning several international violin competitions, including the Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa, the Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris and the ARD Sonata Competition in Munich , he went to London in 1961 . There he made his debut in 1962 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel . This was the beginning of the international career of the musician, who stands 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 Roschdestwenski , Klaus Tennstedt , Leonard Slatkin and Charles Dutoit . In 1971 he made his US debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti .

In addition to the violin works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert as well as Béla Bartók , Pauk's repertoire also includes contemporary composers such as Witold Lutosławski , 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 works with Peter Frankl and Ralph Kirshbaum .