András Adorján rođen je u 1944. godine Budimpešti, odrastao u Kopenhagenu, a od 1974. godine živi u Münchenu. Nakon završenog studija stomatologije 1968. godine, posvetio se studiju flaute u klasama profesora Jeana-Pierrea Rampala i Aurèlea Nicoleta. Laureat je mnogih međunarodnih flautističkih natjecanja (Montreal 1968, Pariz 1971) te vodeći flautist značajnih europskih simfonijskih orkestara. Godine 1987. počeo je predavati flautu na Visokoj školi za glazbu u Kölnu. U razdoblju od 1996. do 2013. predavao je i na Visokoj školi za glazbu u Münchenu, a 2018. godine postao je počasnim profesorom moskovskog Schnittke Instituta za glazbu. Tijekom svoje karijere snimio je preko sto nosača zvuka te je bio kourednik glazbene enciklopedije Leksikon za flautu (njem. Lexikon der Flöte) objavljene 2009. godine. Dobitnik je brojnih nagrada, među kojima su Jacob Gade nagrada u Kopenhagenu (1968), nagrada Deutsche Schallplattenkritik (1988), Doppler-Ring nagrada mađarskog društva flautista (1996) te talijanska nagrada Premio di carriera (2007). Dobitnik je čak triju nagrada za životno djelo – godine 2018. tu mu je nagradu dodijelilo Američka nacionalna udruga flautista, 2019. godine nagradu je primio od strane Kineske udruge flautista a 2021. Nagradu “Vladimir Kondres” za životno djelo, dodijelilo mu je Hrvatsko društvo flautista.
András Adorján was born in 1944 in Budapest, grew up in Copenhagen, and has lived in Munich since 1974. After completing his dental studies in 1968, he devoted himself to the flute, studying with Jean-Pierre Rampal and Aurèle Nicolet. He is a laureate of major international flute competitions (Montreal 1968, Paris 1971) and has served as principal flutist of several distinguished European symphony orchestras.
In 1987 he began teaching flute at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, and from 1996 to 2013 he was also a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. In 2018 he was appointed Honorary Professor at the Schnittke Institute of Music in Moscow.
Throughout his career he has recorded over one hundred albums and co-edited the comprehensive Lexikon der Flöte (2009). His numerous awards include the Jacob Gade Prize (Copenhagen, 1968), the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik Prize (1988), the Doppler Ring of the Hungarian Flute Society (1996), and the Italian Premio di carriera (2007).
He is also the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards: in 2018 from the National Flute Association (USA), in 2019 from the Chinese Flute Association, and in 2021 the “Vladimir Kondres” Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Croatian Flute Association.