Haydneum | Who We Are

Artistic Director:

Benoît Dratwicki
Benoît Dratwicki studied the cello and the bassoon before going on to music history, theory, aesthetics and orchestration. He is the artistic director of the Centre for French Baroque Music, artistic consultant at the Palazzetto Bru Zane and artistic director of the Haydneum. He holds a doctorate in musical arts, and is an authority on music at the royal court of Versailles and 18th-century French Baroque opera. Over the past two decades he has contributed to the rediscovery of countless musical treasures.

CEO:

István Káptalan
István Káptalan earned his first university degree in electrical engineering, but then he also graduated with further degrees in Business Administration (MBA) and in bank management in Budapest. He has worked for several Hungarian and international financial institutions in the realms of strategy, finance/controlling and later, IT. He has participated in numerous significant bank projects in, among other places, Prague, Singapore and London. As the IT Director of the HSBC Bank responsible for Central and Eastern Europe, he worked in Prague. Later, as the IT Director of Citibank in charge of Russia, his seat was in Moscow. His main expertise lies in IT management, project management and finance.

Senior Operation Officer:

Ágnes Baksay

Ms Baksay earned her economics degree at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Pécs with a specialisation in Corporate Finance. She has worked as FCO for non-profit organisations and as controller, finance and executive manager for multinational companies. She has also completed qualification courses to become a tax advisor and project manager in application writing. She made use of the latest qualification also throughout the projects run by her. She has contributed actively to introducing controlling and corporate management systems and has coordinated companies’ payroll, controlling, IT, and HR administration. She acted as the contact person and reported to the authorities and foreign parent companies. Her fields of expertise are finance, controlling and tax issues.

Scientific Committee:

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.

Honorary Board:

László Somfai
Katalin Komlós
Mária Zádori
István Kertész
Malcolm Bilson

Board of Trustees:

István Káptalan – President
Emőke Dr. Solymosi-Tari
Katalin Dr. Veszely

Board of Supervisors:

Gyula Hutiray – President
Gábor Dr. F. Tóth
Réka Dr. Sümegh

International Press:

Ulrike Wilckens, Ophelias Culture PR
www.ophelias-pr.com
letter@ophelias-pr.com

Contact:

E-mail: info@haydneum.com

Address: Hungary, 1014 Budapest, Úri u. 45.

Tax no.: 19307927-2-41

Reg. no.: 01-01-0013158

Bank account number: 10102244-73716100-01005001, Budapest Bank Zrt.

The Haydneum – Hungarian Centre for Early Music Foundation is supported by the Prime Minister’s Office – Hungary.