Viennese-born Gerhard Track began his career at first as member and then as the youngest conductor of the Vienna Boys Choir (1953-1958). He made his orchestra conducting debut at the age of nineteen with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

He is a graduate of the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts, an accomplished composer and arranger with more than 250 works published in the United States of America, Germany and Austria.

He has written an opera (Minnequa), which was first performed during the bi-centennial celebration in Colorado. He has also written three children's musicals (The Little Match Girl, Reindeer’s Surprise, and Einen Jux Wollen Wir Uns Machen), which were performed in the USA and Vienna, Austria.

His numerous appointments include associate professor and conductor of music at St. John’s University in Minnesota, USA (1958-1969). From 1969-1986 he served as music director and conductor of the Pueblo Symphony Orchestra, Colorado, USA; founded the annual Mozart Festival of Colorado; and established the Pueblo Symphony Chorale and the Pueblo Youth Symphony Orchestra. He also occupied the Thatcher chair of music at the University of Southern Colorado. He served as artistic director of the International Cultural Days and Symposium in Neuberg, Austria (1977-1980), artistic director of the International Festival of Arts and Literature, Taipei, Taiwan (1981), and artistic director at the “Summer Workshop of the Gregorian Institute of America” in Windsor, Canada (1964, 1965).

He has conducted members of the Vienna Philharmonic; Radio Symphony Orchestras of Vienna, Brussels, Poland, and Slovakia; Mozarteum Orchestra in Salzburg; World Youth Festival Orchestra; Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan; the Penang Symphony Orchestra in Malaysia; the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra; the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; the Tonkünstler Orchestra of Austria; Civic Orchestra of Minneapolis (USA); the Denver Symphony Orchestra; the Colorado Springs Symphony, Colorado, USA; the Delaware Symphony; Virginia Philharmonic; the Denver Chamber Orchestra; the Australian Philharmonic at the Sydney Opera House and at the Melbourne Concert Hall, and many more.

Since 1986 the Maestro has served as the music director and conductor of the Orchestra Pro Musica International, the Vienna Serenade Orchestra, the Choral Society Young-Vienna (Jung-Wien) (1986-1996), and the Vienna Male Choral Society (Wiener Männergesang-Verein) (1990-2003). He is a board member of the Austrian Composer Society (ÖKB) and served as President from 1988-1992.

From 1987-1989 he was on the music faculty of the University of Music and Performing Arts (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) and the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. In 1989 he was appointed director of the Conservatory and 17 Viennese music schools, which he held for ten years.