Gábor Csalog was born in 1960 in Budapest. He began to play the piano at the age of six and he was only eleven when he was admitted to the class of specially gifted pupils at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. His teachers included Dezső Ránki, Zoltán Kocsis, György Kurtág, Pál Kadosa and András Schiff. He was a postgraduate student with György Sebők at Indiana University and was later assistant to Professor Sebők for two years. A participant in numerous international piano competitions, he was a prize-winner in the 1986 Budapest Liszt Competition.
He plays a lot of contemporary music and is in daily working contact with several Hungarian composers. He has studied and worked with György Kurtág since 1980, performing his works and even premiering many of the new pieces of "Plays and Games".
In addition to appearing regularly in concerts in most European countries, he is paying more and more attention to radio and CD recordings. His first solo recording appeared in 1990. In 1996 he started to record all of Chopin's piano composition. Of the series, he has already completed the Nocturnes and Mazurkas.
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