Gabriel Adorján was born in 1975 in Munich and received his first lesson in violin at the age of four. He studied under Ana Chumachenco at the Munich Musikhochschule, under Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and under Igor Ozim in his master class at the Vienna Music University and at the Musikhochschule in Bern, where he received his soloist diploma with honours in the year 2000. Moreover, he took part in master classes by Nicolas Chumachenco, György Kurtág and Sándor Végh. His solo appearances so far have included performances with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Munich Residence in 1996, with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra in the Meistersinger Hall, Nuremberg in 1997, and with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic Orchestra in 2000.

He is also a member of the Zurich Piano Trio. In 1998 he was awarded the Prix Suisse in the Geneva International Competition and was awarded a prize in the Paganini Competition in Genoa. In 2001 he was also received the "Bärenreiter-Urtext Prize" at the ARD (the combined German broadcasting corporations) competition in Munich. Since September 2001, Gabriel Adorján has been the first concert master of the orchestra of the Comic Opera in Berlin.