Born 1979 in Budapest, started playing trumpet with Gabriella Losonczi, Éva Nagyiván and Ede Inhoff. From 1993 to 1998 he has studied at the Bartok Conservatory of Music with Attila Simon. Since 1998 he has studied at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest with Prof. Frigyes Varasdy and has graduated with Master of Music in Trumpet Performance and Teaching in 2003. In 2005 and 2006 he made his postgradual studies with Prof. Carole D. Reinhart at the Vienna Music Academy, Austria. Gabor has attended master classes with Tamás Velenczei, Gábor Tarkövi, Balázs Nemes, Carole D. Reinhart, Bo Nilsson, Max Sommerhalder, Fred Mills, Niklas Eklund, Mark Gould, Heinrich Bruckner and Reinhold Friedrich. He has won several prizes at national and international competitions and was awarded with the -„Prix Européen d’Encouragement” of the „Pro Europa Foundation” in Strasbourg in 2001, During the last years he played with several chamber- and symphony orchestras mainly in orchestral works and oratories of Bach and Händel (with the Budapest Strings, Hungarian Virtuosi, the Failoni C.O., Budapest Baroque, Savaria Baroque, Sonatores Pannoniae, the Orfeo Chamber Orchestra, the Reinische Kantorei/Germany) and the Yale Schola Cantorum/USA) on piccolo- or baroque (natural) trumpet as soloist, first or section trumpet. Since 1999 he is principal trumpeter of the Budapest Chamber Symphony Weiner-Szász and betwen 2002 -2006 he was co-principal at the BM Danubia Symphony Orchestra, Budapest. In 2002 and 2003 he was first trumpeter of the St. Margarethen Opera Festival, Austria. Since 2005 he teaches at the Bartok Conservatory of Music trumpet faculty. He also regularly performs with the Hungarian State Opera, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra (dir. Iván Fischer).
Gabor Komlossy is playing on piston valve trumpets, german rotary trumpets, cornets, piccolo trumpets and natural- (baroque) instruments as well. Instrumentarium: Gábor Komlóssy plays on Lechner B, C and Eb/D custom rotary trumpets, Monette Chicago 61X B and C, Schilke Eb/D piston valve trumpets, Schilke P5-4, G1L-4 and Lechner piccolo trumpets, Courtois and E. A. Couturier cornets, Naumann /Egger baroque trumpet with Monette Prana, Egger and Monke (baroque) mouthpieces.