Music you experience with your soul.

Maestro Laszlo Gati is one of Canada’s internationally best known conductors. He has conducted more than fifty orchestras on four continents. Most major artists apeared under his baton, including Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Dame Moura Lympany, Mstislav Rostropovitch,Van Cliburn, Phillipe Entremont, Igor Oistrakh, Janos Starker and many others.

He was the Music Director of the Victoria and Windsor Symphony Orchestras in Canada, the l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Montreal, Founder and Artistic Director of The Montreal Chamber Orchestra, The Victoria Summer Festival, Founder and Artistic Director of The Dollar Concerts of the Pacific, Principal Guest Conductor of The National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, and the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra.

Maestro Gati is also an accomplished violinist and violist. For several years he was a violinist with The Hungarian State Philharmonic Orchestra and Assistant Solo Viola with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He also acted as Assistant Conductor to Zubin Mehta.

Before leaving Hungary in 1956, he was the Head of the Symphonic and Chamber Music Department of the Hungarian Radio. He established and became the head of the Musical Program Exchange Department. He was the conductor of the State Philharmony and the conductor of the University of Economics Choir and Orchestra.

Maestro Gati was one of the Founding Directors of the Association of Canadian Orchestras (ACO). In British Columbia he incorporated the Galacon Concerts Management Inc. and presented major attractions in Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle Washington, including The Canadian Opera Company, The Bach Aria Group,TheRoyal Winnipeg Ballet, The Romeros, The National Dance Company of Senegal, Andres Segovia, Narciso Yepes, and others.

During his career, Maestro Gati worked regularly with youth orchestras in Banff, Budapest, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria.

Maestro Gati is holder of various awards, honorary positions and citations, including a Senior Art Fellowship from The Canada Council, Honorary Professor of the Zoltan Kodaly Academy, Honorary Citizen of the City of Victoria and holder of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal.

Artists and Orchestras Conducted by Maestro Gati