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.