Gabor "Gabs" Dornyei is one of the most in demand and successful Solo Artist, Session Drummers and Educators/Clinicians of his generation who's emerged out of Europe & UK in recent decades. 

London,UK based Gabor - from Hungarian cultural heritage- has been the touring and recording drummer for 4x Grammy Award nominated American "Jazz Guitar Genius" Stanley Jordan since 2016. They've recorded and toured the world multiple times over with great line ups, featuring Chilean virtuoso Christian Galves and UK's #1 electric bassist Laurence Cottle on bass, Hungarian percussion Maestro Kornel Horvath on all hand drums & Percussion and Gabs on drums. 
As a recording artist and session drummer, Gabs played on gold and platinum selling pop-rock albums and recorded for Walt Disney Co. He's been the "house recording drummer" for top UK record producer Andy Whitmore for 15 years now, who's produced, Elton John, Peter Andre, Atomic Kitten, Jason Donovan, Danni Minogue, Eric Clapton and many more. 
As a solo artist Gabs has released multiple critically acclaimed CD-s and DVD-s, most notably "Drums, Music & Friends" CD&DVD, "tHUNderDuo with Dom Famularo" and Rhythm Frontier feat Pete Lockett & Gabs (Hunnia Recors). His tHUNder Duo release has been signed to Hudson Music in NYC. 

As a touring drummer Gabs performed at Glastonbury, Sziget Festival, London Jazz Festival, Music China Festival-Shanghai, Ronnie Scott's, Canary Wharf Jazz Festival etc, and countless international drum festivals around the world, on the line up with Billy Cobham, Ian Paice, Terry Bozzio, Steve Smith, Gavin Harrison, Dom Famularo and many more. Gabor is respected world wide as a drum clinician and educator, and successfully completed 10 extensive solo drum clinic tours over China.

Gabs been featured in every international drumming publications - including Modern Drummer Magazine in the USA-and on global, market leading online channels such as DRUMEO in Vancouver, Canada and DRUM CHANNEL in Los Angeles, California.  

Gabs is well versed in theatre and show productions as well and performed in the West End on Thriller Live (Arena World Tour & West End), We Will Rock You, Rock of Ages, Grease, Priscilla and many other productions. 

He's been teaching drums for 30 years privately and been working in higher education in the UK for over 15 years and presented drum clinics and masterclasses at almost every notable higher education organisation in the UK/EU and at the prestigious Drummers Collective Institute (DCI) in New York, USA, only to name a few. 

In the education field Gabs has achieved a Level 7 PGCert qualification and he's a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He manages his ever growing chain of private drum schools, currently Harrow, Pinner and Northwood Drum Schools. 

He's also running a successful private teaching business from his home studio, Gabbey Road Studio where he also records remote/online sessions and conducts online lessons for student from all around the world. 
Gabs is global endorser of market leading companies, such as Pearl Drums (Japan), Zildjian Cymbals (USA), Remo Drumheads,(USA) Vic Firth (Signature) Sticks (USA), Tycoon Percussion -GD Signature Drum Pack-(Thailand), Roland (Japan), Audix Microphones (USA), Hardcase (GB), SkyGel (Germany) & Cympad (USA). 

In 2018 DRUMEO listed Gabor between the Top 10 Drummers in the World, together with his idols, Billy Cobham, Peter Erskine and Bernard Purdie. https://www.drumeo.com/beat/10-tips-from-the-best-drummers/

In 2023 Gabs was appointed at Head OF Drums at the prestigious LCCM-London. 

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