Norbert S. MEDGYESY PhD (Győr, 1977) is a educational historian who deals with the regional effects of secondary and higher education in Hungary in the 17th-19th centuries, the colourful world of school culture in the Baroque era, especially school theatre and music life, and its worldly patrons. Since 1997 he has been a member of the Old Hungarian Drama Research Group. His research field also extends to the Csíksomlyó mystery plays, and the relationship between folk chants of the 17th and 18th centuries (primarily those historical in content) and folk tradition. He compiled and systematized the unique traditions of the village of Perenye in Vas County. The findings of his investigations have been published in three monographs and many studies, partly supported by the Bolyai János Research Scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and currently with support from the Arts Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. To present these treasures in the 21st century, in 2002 he founded the Blessed Eusebius Theatre Company (BÖSZK), whose members have to date presented 15 Baroque school dramas and three folk plays in 25 venues in the Carpathian Basin; some performances can be seen on the Hungarian Academy of Arts Publishers channel http://t.ly/dxYDMa.
Norbert S. Medgyesy is an habilitated associate professor, and currently the director of the Department of Theory, Methodology and Didactics of History at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of the Humanities (in Piliscsaba), and also of the Economy, Regional and Political History Workshop of the Historiography Doctoral School of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. In addition, he gives lessons at the Department of Folk Music at the Liszt Academy. To date, 14 of his students have been to National Scholarly Student Conferences assisted by him as supervisor and tutor, with several winning prizes: 1st place: 2 people; special prize: 1 person; 2nd place: 2 people; 3rd place: 2 people; others (in 5 competitions): 11 people.

László GOMBOS, musicologist and holder of the Bence Szabolcsi Prize, was born in Szombathely in 1967. He studied piano, organ and music theory at Szombathely Conservatory, and from 1985 in Budapest at the Liszt Academy of Music at the Department of Choral Conducting and Music Theory. In 1995 he graduated in musicology and music teaching at the same institute. During the next three years he took part in the PhD programme in musicology. Since 1990 he has taught music history in the Városmajor Grammar School (1990-1998), at the University of Debrecen (1998–2002), and at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest (1995-2016). Besides this he has been a researcher at the Institute for Musicology in Budapest since 1994. In 2002–2009 he worked in the Ernő Dohnányi Archives, and since 2009 he has worked in the Museum of Music History in the same institute. His main research field is Hungarian music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian concert life, and oeuvres of such composers as Franz Liszt, Jenő Hubay, Ernő Dohnányi, Béla Bartók, Károly Aggházy, Ferenc Farkas and Sándor Szokolay. He has organized over thirty musical exhibitions throughout Europe on topics of Hungarian music history, in Budapest, Berlin, Brussels, Ferrara, Rome, Szeged, Nagykanizsa, Geneva, Lausanne, Moscow. He has published about 200 studies, articles, and books. In 2002–2007 he edited the Dohnányi Yearbook, and since 2010 he has published catalogues, study booklets and other publications for the Museum of Music History. He is vice-president of the Jenő Hubay Society and president of the Hubay Foundation and the Budapest branch of the Hungarian Liszt Society.

Veronika KUSZ PhD (*1980), musicologist, senior research fellow at the the Institute for Musicology, Budapest. She graduated in musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, in 2003, where she earned her PhD in 2010. As a Fulbright -scholar, she spent an academic year in 2005‒2006 at Florida State University, Tallahassee, conducting research at the American Dohnányi collections. She has been working at Institute for Musicology, Budapest, since 2002. She has been advisor and lecturer at the Doctoral School of the Liszt Academy of Music since 2015. She has been awarded several scholarships (Fulbright, 2005‒2006; Kodály 2005, 2006, 2008; Bolyai, 2015‒2018, 2019‒2022, and ÚNKP, 2019‒2021) and awards: the Academic Youth Prize (by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2016), Bolyai Plaquette (2019), and the Kroó György Plaquette. She has published articles in Notes, American Music, Journal of the American Harp Society, The Pan, and Studia Musicologica among others. Her books include: Járdányi Pál / Pál Járdányi (Mágus 2004, second edition: BMC, 2016), Dohnányi amerikai évei [Dohnányi’s American years] (Rózsavölgyi, 2015), A Wayfaring Stranger: Ernst von Dohnányi’s American Years (University of California Press, 2020), Dohnányi Ernő: Válogatott írások és nyilatkozatok [Ernő Dohnányi: Selected writings and statements] (Rózsavölgyi, 2020).

Dr. Mónika JÓZSA, choir conductor, music and voice teacher is Assistant Professor at the Teacher Training Institute of the Central European Studies Faculty of the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra (Slovakia). She is an honorary member of the Hungarian Kodály Society and a non-academician member of the secretariat of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
She began studying choral conducting at the Higher Choral Conductor Training Institute in Budapest in 1985. She graduated in conducting in 1992 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and as a voice and music teacher and choir conductor in 2003 at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2013 she obtained a doctoral degree in the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, her field of research being the work and relationships of Kodály Zoltán in Slovakia. From 1981 to 1994 she was choral conductor of the Girls’ Choir of the Hungarian Language Grammar School in Galanta, and from 1986 to 1993 the conductor of the choir of the Ifjú Szivek Hungarian Arts Ensemble in Bratislava. From 1982 she has directed the Kodály Zoltán Chorale in Galanta, and from 1992 the Hungarian Choir in the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra. From 1980 she was a singer and later conductor of the Vass Lajos Choir of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia, where from 2006 she was artistic director.
She has an important role in training Hungarian music teachers in choral conducting in Slovakia. From 2006 she has been a regular guest speaker and leader of choral conducting courses at the Jókai Mór Summer School organized by the Alliance of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia. The choirs she directs interpret choral music at an extremely high artistic level, and have achieved outstanding results in several contests, in choir competitions in Hungary and abroad. She has received many awards for her concert activity and her work in education, e.g the Silver Plaquette of the Slovak Republic (2002), the Prize of the Alliance of Hungarian Teachers in Slovakia (2009), the St. László Cross of Merit (2011), the Mikola Anikó Prize (2011), the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit (2013), the Prize of the Rector of the University of Constantinus the Philosopher in Nitra (2015), the Pro Urbe Prize of the town of Galanta (2017), the Csemadok Education Prize (2020), and the Music Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Arts (2020).

Viola BIRÓ PhD (*1985) studied musicology at the Gh. Dima Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), Romania (2004–2008), and continued with an MA in musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (2008–2010). Between 2010 and 2013 she attended doctoral studies in musicology at the same institution. From 2011 to 2013 she took part in various projects in the Hungarian Music History Department of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Hungarian 20th and 21st century Music Archives, . Since September 2013 she has been working at the Bartók Archives, Institute for Musicology where her main task was the examination of manuscript and audio sources of the composer’s collection of Romanian folk music. She gave an account of her findings in conference papers in Hungarian, Romanian, and English. She was co-editor (with Vera Lampert) of the 4th volume of Béla Bartók Collected Essays, containing his folk music studies and conference papers, published in 2016. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Béla Bartók’s research into Romanian folk music and its influence on his compositions (supervisor: László Vikárius). Currently she is working on the preparation of the online source catalogue of Bartók’s folk music arrangements (http://bartok-nepzene.zti.hu/en), and she participates in the preliminary work for several volumes of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition.

Dr. Emőke SOLYMOSI-TARI (PhD) is a music historian and an ordinary member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. She completed her studies in Budapest. She gained a piano teacher’s certificate at the Teacher Training Instituted of the Liszt Academy of Music, then graduated in music teaching, and in musicology, in the University Section. She also has a higher vocational qualification in cultural management. From 1988 she began working as a music journalist. From 1995 for more than two decades she taught musical repertoire at the King Saint István Grammar School of Music; since 2001 she has taught music history at the Liszt Academy, from 2021 as an associate professor. It was here that in 2013 she defended her doctoral dissertation on the stage works of László Lajtha. Since 2014 she has been director of the Art Theory Section of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.
She has been researching the work of László Lajtha since 1988. Two books bear her name: „…magam titkos szobája” (Hagyományok Háza, 2007), and Két világ közt (Hagyományok Háza, 2010). She was the editor of Zsuzsanna Erdélyi’s book A kockás füzet [The chequered booklet] (Hagyományok Háza, 2010). She edited László Fábián’s writing about László Lajtha under the title Ős és utód nélkül (Gondolat Publishers – National Széchényi Library, 2015). She took part in the research group that was the first to discover the history of the National Music School. These research findings were published in a volume entitled A Nemzeti Zenede in 2005. As well as scholarly publications she has written articles, made radio and television programmes, compiled an internet database of Lajtha’s works, and has held several exhibitions about the composer’s life and work.
She is known as an editor and presenter of concerts and complex arts events, as part of the Pastorale and the Felfedezőúton [Path of Discovery] series between 1997 and 2021 she presented nearly 600 events. She was awarded the Lajtha László Prize (2002), the Zugló Education Prize (2005) and the Szabolcsi Bence Prize (2012). In 2013 she was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.