Violinist Gyula Stuller was born in Budapest in 1962. He earned diplomas from the Franz Liszt Music College in Budapest, where he was a student of Ferenc Halász, and the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied with György Pauk. He subsequently attended masterclasses by Nathan Milstein, Sándor Végh and Tibor Varga. Gyula Stuller won prizes at a number of international competitions: the József Szigeti International Violin Competition, Budapest, the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition, Gorizia. In 1986 he won first prize at the 20th Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in the Swiss town of Sion. This led to invitations to perform all over Europe. In Hungary, his regular chamber music partners are Imre Rohmann and Miklós Perényi and a concert at the Music Academy in 2002 was recorded by Hungarian Television. In 2003, he performed Schubert’s Trout Quintet with pianist Radu Lupu in Lausanne and other cities. In September he was invited to play at the Barcelona Mozart Festival and in October, was a soloist in a Swiss performance of the Chausson Concerto with the Bartók Quartet and Ricardo Castro. In 1996 he began teaching at the Fribourg Conservatoire and since 2002, has directed the artistic training class of the Tibor Varga Academy.