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CONTRIBUTORS
Szilvia TÖRÖK, born in 1976 in Miercurea-Ciuc, România, graduated from
the “Gheorghe Dima” Music Academy, where she studied both Pedagogy as well as
Singing. Her Master’s education was provided by the Music Pedagogy Department of
the Faculty of Reformed Theology within the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca.
She has taught music in several high-schools, as well as being a choir member of the
Hungarian Opera in Cluj. She collaborated as a soloist with St. Michael’s Church in
Cluj, as well as participated in Singing Master classes in Majk, Hungary in 2000, 2001,
2002, and worked with Maria Theresa Uribe, Csengeri Adrienne, Ionel Pantea, Keönch
Boldizsár, Gulyás Dénes. Török Szilvia has also participated in the International “Vox
Artis” Singing Competition in Sibiu, Romania in 2011.
Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ is Senior Ph.D. Lecturer of Music Theory at Gh.
Dima Music Academy. She holds a degree in Piano and Musicology recognised by the
Education Ministry in Madrid, an M.A. in Musicology granted by the Gh. Dima Music
Academy, leading to a Ph.D. earned from the Music University in Bucharest, in 2002.
She attended Aurel Stroe’s Master Class in Cluj (1995) and György Kurtág’s Master
Class in Budapest (2005). As she also holds a degree in Business Management
(M.B.A. granted by Babeş-Bolyai University), she combines her academic career with
the post of Music Programme Manager of the Transylvania Philharmonic and with the
position of temporary Supervisor at the Symphony Orchestra of the Principality of
Asturias, Oviedo. Her books have been published in Romania, and her articles in
leading Journals in Romania, Spain, Lithuania, Switzerland, Czech Republic, and the
U.S.A. She participated in conferences in Romania (Bucharest, Cluj, Iaşi, Oradea),
Germany (Oldenburg), Austria (Vienna), Lithuania (Vilnius), Ireland (Dublin), and Italy
(Rome). Since 2010 she has been visiting professor at the University of Oviedo/Spain,
in 2012 at Istituto Superior di Studi Musicali „P. Mascagni” Livorno, and was also
awarded an Erasmus Grant at the University of Cambridge, U.K. (2010, 2011),
studying with the renowned musicologists Nicholas Cook and Nicholas Marston. In
2011/2012 she received a research grant from the Paul Sacher Foundation in
Basel/Switzerland. As a consequence of her findings in the Ligeti collection in Basel,
she recently obtained a DAAD Scholarship at “Humboldt” University in Berlin, her
application being supported by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Hermann Danuser.
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