Gabriel (boy) with Bartók and Zathureczky, seated on either side of his mother, the hostess, April 1936

Still from film about Hubay Palace Musicales, Budapest, 1940

Soloist with Royal Academy Orchestra, Ernö Unger conducting, Budapest, 1943

Enescu and Banat, in joint Bucharest Sonata Recital, March 1945

Banat with Menuhin. Budapest, summer 1945 (photo by Mrs. Kodály)

With Enescu backstage at Banat’s U.S. debut recital in Town Hall, 1949

Banat with Milstein in Lewisohn Stadium, 1951

Young Audiences Concert at segregated school in Baltimore 1954 (Baltimore Sun)

Carnegie Hall Recital Poster 1956

Banat, 1958

With Casals at the Marlborao Festival, 1961

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Albeneri Trio: Gabriel Banat, vln., Benar Heifetz, vcl. and Arthur Balsam, pno. 1966

Mario Miranda & Banat, Mozart Sonata Cycle 1967

Banat and Miranda with Copland projected on the screen, 20th C. Sonata Series, photo NY Times, February 1968

Banat with Robert Starer, composer, at the piano 20th C. Sonata Series, 1968

1973 Philharmonic Strike Tour, Banat with poster in Madrid

1973, Philharmonic playing in Barcelona’s Palau de Musica

Portrait of Bernstein with dedication “To Gabriel”, photo by Banat

Aaron Copland on his 80th Birthday, celebrated by Banat and his Westchester Conservatory Orchestra

Conducting his Westchester Conservatory Youth Orchestra with NY Philharmonic 1st clarinetist, Stanley Drucker, as soloist. Cooper Union 1975

Banat conducting his Westchester Conservatory Orchestra with alumnus, Garrick Ohlson celebrating the Conservatory’s 50th Anniversary, at Tully Hall, 1979

Performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with his orchestra, vocal soloists and the Westchester Choral Society. 1980

Masters of the Violin, a six volume series of facsimiles of XVII and XVIII century violinist composers HBJ, 1982

Gabriel and Diana Banat, Bahamas, 1984

Official New York Philharmonic portrait, 1985

Volume of facsimiles of original manuscripts of Mozart’s violin concertos, published by Banat in 1986

The Banat/Kagan Piano Quartet, Gabriel Banat, vln., Diana Banat, vla., Gerald Kagan, vc., Susan Kagan, pno. 1993

Banat’s Philharmonic colleagues celebrating the 25th anniversary of the orchestra’s Strike Tour with Spanish manager (with white beard) Madrid, 1998

Banat’s acclaimed biography: The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, published in 2006

Tuesday morning string quartets, Banats with Kathleen Thomson, vln., and Elizabeth Sadewhite, vc., at home in Dobbs Ferry, 2008

Last public performance in 2008, playing Bach’s Double Concerto with Gabriel Popa, the concertmaster of his hometown, Timisoara’s orchestra, in 2008, after being named its citizen of honor. (On the same stage as his first public performance, in 1934.)