Tamás ZELINKA music educator, music educationalist, editor-in-charge of the online music education magazine Parlando, former senior advisor.
He graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music as a teacher of double bass, musicianship and primary school music. Between 1975 and 2008, he was Senior Advisor to the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Budapest City Council and then to the Cultural Affairs Department of the Mayor's Office, where he was responsible for music education and music and cultural affairs in Budapest. Since 1972, he has been editor and since 1990 editor-in-chief of the music education magazine Parlando, published by the Hungarian Musicians' and Dancers' Trade Union, and since 2012 of the online magazine parlando.hu. He has given more than 6,000 educational lectures in Budapest and all over the country: he has been a lecturer and presenter at concerts of Philharmonia Hungary in Budapest; and in the countryside, at concerts of the Dohnányi Ernő Symphony Orchestra of Budafok, the Duna Symphony Orchestra and the Szent István Philharmonic Orchestra, at the József Attila Free Seminar of the Budapest Kossuth Club. He regularly participates in music education programmes of the cultural centres of Budapest. His work has been recognised with numerous awards, including the Prize for Popular Culture (1994), the Artisjus Prize (2007, 2019), the János Csere Apáczai Prize (2009), the Miklós Bánffy Prize (2011), the KÓTA Prize (2020), the Hungarian Prize for Arts Education (2021), and in 2018 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary.