At 14, Mr. Han-Gorski was the youngest participant and prizewinner at the International Music Competition in Warsaw.

After receiving a diploma from the Israeli Academy of Music in Tel Aviv, he was invited by the legendary Jascha Heifetz to audition for him in Paris.  Mr. Heifetz then invited him, as a full scholarship student, to take part in his Master Class at the University of Southern California.  At the end of 4 years of study with the Master, Mr. Heifetz presented him with an eighteenth-century Italian violin!

Mr. Han-Gorski performed in the Cleveland Orchestra from 1967 – 1970, under the legendary George Szell.  Additionally, he held concertmaster posts with the Metropolitan Opera National Company, The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and the Minnesota Orchestra.  In 1976, he was appointed Concertmaster of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for twenty-five years.  As a soloist, Mr. Han-Gorksi 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.  In 1986, he founded the ensemble “Virtuosi di Vienna,” with which he toured extensively all over Europe.

As an accomplished linguist, Mr. Han-Gorski is fluent in 7 languages.  Forty years after his American debut, after having spent the past 30 years in Vienna, Mr. Han-Gorski has chosen to make Minnesota his home base once again.