András Adorján

András Adorján was born in Budapest, grew up in Copenhagen, and has lived in Munich since 1974. After graduating as a dentist in Copenhagen in 1968, he completed his musical studies with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet. As a winner of several international flute competitions and principal flutist of major European symphony orchestras, he was appointed professor of flute at the Musikhochschule in Cologne in 1987 and continued teaching at the Musikhochschule in Munich between 1996 and 2013. In 2018, he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Schnittke-Institute in Moscow. With more than 100 recorded albums and as editor of a unique and extensive encyclopedia “Lexikon der Flöte” published by Laaber in 2009, he is today one of the best-known and most prominent flutists of his generation. András Adorján received the Jacob-Gade-Preis in Copenhagen in 1968 and was awarded at the Concours International de Flûte in Montreux. In 1971, he won the Premier Grand Prix at the Concours International de Flûte de Paris and was honored in 1988 with the Prize of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik, in 1996 with the Doppler-Ring of the Hungarian Flute Society, and in 2007 with the Premio di carriera of the Falaut-Associazione italiana. In 2018, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American National Flute Association (NFA), in 0219 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chinese Flute Association (CFA), and in 2021 the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Croatian Flute Association (HDF).