Professor Tunbridge to present keynote speech

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Professor Laura Tunbridge

Professor Laura Tunbridge

Professor Tunbridge will be keynote speaker at the first international workshop on The Tradition of Hungarian String Quartet Performance taking place at Reok Palace, Szeged, Hungary, on Thursday 23 May 2024. A collaboration between the Reok Palace (Szeged), the Art Theory Institute at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Szeged, and the Institute of Art Theory and Methodology at the Hungarian Academy of Arts other speakers include Eszter Kiss from the Vujicsics Tihamér Music School, Emese Sófalvi from Babeş-Bólyai University, László Gombos and Zsombor Németh from the HUN-REN Institute for Musicology, and Balázs Szabó from the University of Győr, Róbert Nátyi, the Dean of the Béla Bartók Faculty of Arts at the University of Szeged, and Ákos Windhager from the Hungarian Academy of Arts Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology.

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