Adam Ignácz

Adam Ignácz is a Senior Research Fellow at the 20th–21st Century Hungarian Music Archive, part of the Institute of Musicology at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He holds a PhD in Philosophy (Aesthetics) from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), where he also earned degrees in History and Aesthetics. He has been a research associate at the Institute since 2013 and is actively involved in the study of Hungarian popular music from the second half of the 20th century.

His research focuses on the history and sociology of Hungarian popular music, the institutional history of musicology in Hungary, and the representation of artists in 20th-century operatic works. He has organized numerous academic conferences, including History(s) of Hungarian Popular Music and Communicating Music Scenes, and has led editorial projects such as serving as chief editor of Rózsavölgyi és Társa publishing house.

Ignácz has received multiple prestigious scholarships, including the Bolyai János Research Scholarship, the NKFIH postdoctoral scholarship, the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship (twice), and the Zoltán Kodály Scholarship (three times). He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Public Body (since 2014) and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).

• Zoltán Kodály Scholarship
• Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship
• Ernst Mach Scholarship
• Kodály Zoltán Ösztöndíj
• Bolyai János Kutatási Ösztöndíj
• NKFIH postdoctoral scholarship

He has supervised doctoral and thesis students at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and ELTE, and has taught at ELTE and Pannon University. No research grants are explicitly mentioned beyond scholarship funding. He does not appear to lead a formal lab or research team but has led research groups such as the music aesthetics research group at the Erasmus Dormitory.