About me
Ferenc János Szabó Dr. habil., pianist and musicologist. Studied piano at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy (Budapest) and chamber music at Kunstuniversität Graz. He has doctor’s degrees DLA as pianist (2012) and PhD in musicology (2019). As a pianist, he won several prizes at international chamber music competitions. From March 2013, he has been associate professor and vocal coach at the Voice Department of the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy.
From September 2011, he has worked at the Institute for Musicology (Research Centre for the Humanities, ELKH). His research fields are the history of Hungarian sound recordings and performance practice. Besides several postdoctoral scholarships, in 2019 he won the Edison Fellowship of the British Library. Between 2022 and 2025, he will carry out his research with the János Bolyai research grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is vice-chair of the IASA Discography Committee and chair of the IAML Audiovisual Materials Section as well as president of IAML Hungary.