Gábor Ormai (1 September 1954 – 7 July 1995)[1] was a Hungarian violist and educator who was most famous as a co-founder of the Takács Quartet in 1975; a group with which he toured widely in performance, made several recordings, and won multiple international awards up until just a few months before his death from cancer in 1995.
[1] In 1982, the quartet became an ensemble in residence at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Ormai taught on the string faculty at that institution until his illness prevented him from continuing.
[1] Prior to forming the quartet, Ormai won second prize at the ARD International Music Competition as a solo violist.
[1] Born in the Hungarian People's Republic, Ormai studied piano, viola, and violin; and was trained at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music.
[1] In 1975, Ormai cofounded the Takács Quartet with three of his fellow students: violinists Gábor Takács-Nagy and Károly Schranz, and cellist András Fejér.