Gabor Meszaros was born in a family with music tradition. He studied at the Winterthur University of Music with his father Prof. Janos Meszaros, who was a pupil of the legendary Karel Pivonka. In different masterclasses, he deepened his music knowledge with world famous musicians such as Milan Turkovic, Frantisek Hermann, Werner Seltmann, Knut Sönstevold and Karl Leister. At 26 years of age, he got his first place as principal bassoon in the Balearic Symphonic Orchestra. He also played in different symphony orchestras in Switzerland, Spain and Germany, where he collaborated also as soloist with conductors such as Arpad Joo, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Anthony Wit, Franz-Paul Decker, Philippe Bender, Johannes Goritzki, Lü Jia, Odón Alonso, Cristian Mandeal, Gilbert Varga. He was invited to play as principal bassoon at the "Millennium Gala Concert of the Nations", that took place at the Lincoln Center in New York under the patronage of UNESCO.

Different national and international music competitions invite him regularly as jury member.

Since 1998, he is professor at the Music University of the Italian Switzerland  "Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana" in Lugano. Some of his students have been awarded at national and international music competitions.

Besides his teaching activity at the Music Unversity, he has held masterclasses in Italy, Hungary, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland, and he has worked as principal bassoon with orchestras such as the Festival Orchester Basel, the Mendelssohn Philharmonie Düsseldorf and the National Basque Orchestra in San Sebastian.

Chamber music has an important role in his artistic activity. He is member of the Swiss Nonet, the Ensemble Varié, the Trio Insolito, the Ensemble Karl Leister and the Ensemble Ticino Musica, and he has also collaborated with the Ensemble Villa Musica. He has played with success with musicians such as Elisavieta Blumina, Andrea Dindo, Ferenc Bognár, Sharon Kam, Alessandro Carbonare, Wolfhard Pencz, Larry Combs, Jean-Claude Gérard, András Adorján, Mario Ancillotti, Radovan Vlatkovic, David Johnson, Maurice Bourgue, Ingo Goritzki, Hans Elhorst, Karl Leister, Francois Benda, Valery Gradow, Rainer Kussmaul, Orpheus Quartett, Verdi Quartett. Thanks to his wide esperience in this field, he is a requested chamber musician.

As soloist, he has played in Europe, North and South America and Asia, accompanied by orchestras such as the Orchester des Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Balearics, the Chamber Orchestra Musica Bern, the Festival Strings Lucerne, the Hungarian Chamber Orchestra and the Deutschen Kammerakademie Neuss. His fame as extraordinary bassoon interpreter was confirmed by successful concerts in different importan music centres such as Zurich, Bern, Berlin, Köln, Madrid, Barcelona, New York, Budapest, Lucerne, Beijing, Shanghai and also by tv appearences and radio recordings.

His CD published in 2002 by the label "La Bottega Discantica": Music for Bassoon and Piano – “France” was welcomed very  positively by the specialists.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT :  G.M. Music Office

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