Mr. Adam Han-Gorski was born in Lvov, a town of colorful history, as well as great cultural and cosmopolitan tradition.  An important Polish city for over six hundred years, Lvov has been, over the course of the last century, under Austrian, Polish, German, Soviet and Ukranian rule.

    Mr. Han-Gorski  started his violin lessons at five, and, at the age of seven, gave his first solo performance with the Silesian Philharmonic.   At 14, he was the youngest participant and a prizewinner at the International Music Competition in Warsaw.

    Following his high school graduation in Poland, he received his diploma from the Israeli Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and was a recipient of four consecutive scholarships from the Helena Rubinstein Foundation and the America-Israel Foundation. Immediately following this event, the legendary Jascha Heifetz, having heard Mr. Han-Gorski in Paris, invited him, as a full scholarship student, to take part in his Master Class at the University of Southern California.  This included participation in a famous series on educational television, available today on VHS tapes and DVDs.

    Additionally, he attended Master Classes by William Primrose and Gregor Piatigorski, and participated in performances with these artists. At the end of four-and-a-half years of study with the Master, Mr. Heifetz presented him with an eighteenth-century Italian violin!

    Owing to all of his exquisite teachers: Partos, Vègh, Heifetz, Gingold, and Primrose, (alumni of respectively J. Hubay, L. Auer and E. Ysaÿe) and Galamian he was directly exposed to the carriers of the greatest violin schools. Incredibly enough, there are only two generations of teachers linking Mr. Han-Gorski in a straight line (a time of over 150 years!) to the 19th century giants: Wieniawski, Vieuxtemps and Joachim.

    Invited by the great George Szell to fill an important post as a first violinist, Mr. Han-Gorski joined the Cleveland Orchestra in 1967, where he had remained until the Maestro's death in 1970. Additionally, he held Concertmaster posts with the Metropolitan Opera National Company, The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Minnesota Orchestra.

    In 1976, he was appointed Concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for twenty-five years. During those years, he was frequently invited as a guest Concertmaster by various orchestras in Germany, Italy, and Mexico, and was active as a lecturer of Master Classes for solo performance and orchestra literature on three continents. His former students perform in orchestras worldwide.

    As a soloist, Mr. Han-Gorski has performed in major cities in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Salvador, South Korea, Japan, South Africa, Israel and all of Europe, receiving great acclaim from the press for his effortless virtuosity and profound musicianship. On two occasions, his performance was acclaimed as “best of the season.”

    In 1986, he founded the ensemble "Virtuosi di Vienna," with which he toured extensively all over Europe.  In recent years, he has increasingly appeared in the double capacity of conductor/ soloist.

    As an accomplished linguist, Mr. Han-Gorski is fluent in seven languages.  In appreciation of his cultural contributions, the President of the Republic of Austria awarded him with the title of "Professor honoris causa."

    Forty years after his American debut, and after having spent the past thirty years in Vienna, Mr. Han-Gorski has chosen to return to the Twin Cities, and to make Minnesota his home base once again.