Katalin Kim
A researcher in the Hungarian Music History Department
of the Institute of Musicology of the Eötvös Loránd Research Network’s
Research Centre for the Humanities (ELKH BTK) since 1993, Katalin Kim is
currently a senior researcher, head of department and the Deputy Director of
the Institute. One of her main areas of research is the 18th century
Hungarian and Central European vocal-instrumental repertoire and the
interpretation and publication of surviving sources in music score libraries
and archives. Since 1999 she has been working on the Institute of
Musicology’s complete critical edition of the operas of Ferenc Erkel, two of
whose operas she has published. In her dissertation she analysed the method
of collaborative composition undertaken by Erkel’s workshop.
András Koltai
The historian and archivist András Koltai studied at
Eötvös Loránd University, where he obtained his doctorate in 2000. In 1994
he became the archivist for the Hungarian Province of the Piarist Order and
in 2014, secretary of the Association of Hungarian Church Archivists, whose
director he has been since 2018. He was awarded the Gyula Pauler Prize in
2017.