Miklós Both

General manager

CURRICULUM

From 2020 Doctoral Programme in Ethnography - Cultural Anthropology
University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School
2020-2021 Cultural Manager
EDUTUS University
2002-2007 Aesthetics MA
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
2002-2007 Communication MA (Absolute diploma)
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
PROFESSIONAL AND MANAGERIAL PRACTICE
Since 2021 Director General - Hungarian Heritage House
2020-2021 Senior Advisor to the Director General - Hungarian Heritage House
2016 - 2021 Founder, Managing Director - Polyphony Project Nonprofit Ltd.
2004 - 2016 Founder, performer, band leader - Napra Band

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

Education

• PTE BTK Department of Ethnography - Cultural Anthropology - guest lecturer, 2022

Publications

•    Polyphony Project / Sibelius Academy (Finland) / Lviv National Music Academy (Ukraine) / MTA BTK Institute of Musicology / Forum for Folk Art Foundation, 2021.
•    Utolsó Óra. Re-ordering and publication of the Utolsó Óra folk music collection material by creating a database and website for the general public. Hungarian Heritage House / Polyphony Project, 2021
•    János Fügedi (ed.): Knowledge Base of Traditional Dances. BTK Institute for Musicology / Polyphony Project, 2021. Digital reconstruction, software support.
•    Both Miklós et al.: Polyphony Project. Second, revised edition. Polyphony Project, 2020.
•    Bolya Mátyás, Both Miklós and Kukár Manó: Ethiofolk. Online Ethiopian folk music and folk dance archive. MTA BTK Institute for Musicology / Polyphony Project, 2019 www.ethiofolk.com
•    Bolya Mátyás, Both Miklós: Polyphony Project: a Complex Framework for Musical Folklore Collection. in Snapshots on Music and Heritage in Europe. edited by the European Music Council, 2019.
•    Both Miklós et al.: Polyphony Project. Ukraine's largest online folk music archive. Online archiving system for processing and publishing Ukrainian folk music collections, Polyphony Project, 2018 . www.polyphonyproject.com

Key conferences, presentations

•    ELTE BTK Institute of Ethnography: digitisation of folk culture heritage, 2021
•    Folk Music Education for Future Generations. Polyphony Project, 2021
•    WOMEX Conference - Next Generation of Folk Music Education, Budapest, 2020
•    Choreomundus International Master in Dance Knowledge, 2019, 2020
•    NKA Sound Occupation Programme - Easy/Music/Learn conference, Debrecen, 2020
•    European Institute of Innovation & Technology, INNOVEIT 2019
•    Lembergi Mykola Lysenko Music Academy, 2019
•    Community-Space-Settlement Education Programme, 2019
•    Music Hungary, 2019
•    Is folk music still alive? - Folk music field research in the 21st century conference, Kecskemét, 2019
•    Europe Point, 2018
•    WOMEX Conference - Collection and Presentation of Folk and Traditional Music, Gran Canaria, 2018
•    Simha Arom ethnomusicological research group, Paris, 2018
•    Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv - Polyphony Project opening 2018
•    Institute of Musicology 2017
•    Creative Europe Conference, Kyiv 2017
•    International Forum - Creative Ukraine 2017
•    Bolyai Conference - Bolyai College ELTE, 2016
•    European Culture Forum, Brussels, 2015

Fieldwork

Documentation of living musical traditions of small communities, music research

2020
January, Ukraine (Ternopil Oblast)
August, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast)
2019
June, Ethiopia (Tigré Province)
August, Magyor village
September, Belarus (Gomel, Mogilev, Vitebsk Oblasts)
2018
May-June, Ukraine (Lviv, Volyn, Zhytomyr oblasts)
July-August, Russia (Karelia)
September-October, Ukraine (Kharkiv, Sumy Oblasts)
2017
December-January, Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast)
February, Lebanon (Bekaa Valley)
March, Transcarpathia
April-June, Ukraine (Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporozhye oblasts)
July, Finland (North Karelia)
August, Calotassia
September-November, Ukraine (Mikolaiv, Herszon, Khmelnitsky Oblasts)
2016
December-January, Ukraine (Zakarpattia Oblast)
April-May, Ukraine (Rivne and Cherkassy, Vinnitsa Oblasts)
July, Transcarpathia
August, Plain, Kalotassia
October, Lebanon (Beirut area)
November, Ukraine (Chernihiv, Kiev region)
2015
March, Ukraine (Poltava region)
September-October, India
2014
June, Iran (Yazd, Isfahan provinces)
March, Russia, North Ossetia
June, Kassa region
September, Ukraine (Poltava, Chernihiv regions)
2013
February-July, China (Yunnan province)
August, Ukraine (Luhansk Oblast)
September-October, Hungary (Transdanubia)
October, China (Yunnan Province)
2012
July, Transylvania (Kalotaszeg, Inner Basin, Lesser Samos)
October-November, China (Yunnan Province)
2011
November-December, China (Yunnan Province)
2010
September, Syria (Aleppo Governorate)
2009
May, Transylvania (Kalotaszeg, Inner-Mediterranean)
2008
April, Transylvania (Kalotaszeg, Inner Plain)

Key applications

Folk Music Education for Future Generations, 2019 - Programme Leader
ERASMUS+ KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for School Education
Partners:
- Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland)
- Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko (Ukraine)
- MTA BTK Institute of Musicology (Hungary)
- Piranha Arts AG (Germany)
- Fórum a Népművészetért Alapítvány (Hungary)

Ethiofolk.com Ethiopian Folk Music and Folk Dance Cultural Database, 2019 - Programme Manager
Within the framework of the project "Bridges across continents for the preservation of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity".
Partners:
- MTA BTK Institute of Musicology
- Directorate of Intellectual Cultural Heritage of the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum
- Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)

Polyphony - Collection of the disappearing European Heritage, 2017 - Programme leader
Creative Europe - Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Partners:
- National Centre of Folk Culture Ivan Honchar Museum (Ukraine)
- Di Mini Teatro (France)
- Ördögkatlan Festival Association (Hungary)

Tandem Shaml, 2016 - researcher

Cafés & Citizenry, Creative Europe, 2011 - artistic director

ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

Discography

•    Dániel Gryllus, Samu Gryllus, Sándor Weöres. Gryllus, 2020. CD.
•    Nana Vortex - Gold record, 2018.
•    Folk songs from the Kaláka Versudvar: Hej, Kapolcsról fúj a szél, 2018.
•    Both Miklós: Musical Odyssey Through China, Gryllus, 2014.
•    Both Miklós: Palimo Story, Fonó Records, 2014.
•    Rendhagyó Prímástalálkozó II, 2013.
•    Both Miklós Folkside: Csillagfészek, 2013.
•    Dániel Gryllus: Teljesség felé DVD, 2013.
•    Napra: Naiv (EP), 2012.
•    Fonott Zene: Folk & Blues, 2012.
•    The Twist: Live Through The Cool, 2011.
•    Napra: Holdvilágos, 2010.
•    Cseh Tamás memorial album: Eszembe jutottál, 2010.
•    Rendhagyó Prímástalálkozó I, 2010.
•    Blind Myself: Budapest, 7 fok, eső. 2009.
•    Both Miklós: Radnóti. Sounding Helikon, 2009.
•    Napra: Jaj, a világ! 2007.
•    Berkó band: Berkó, 2007.
•    Barbaro: III, 2006.
•    A tribute to the Illés Orchestra: Amikor én még kissrác voltam, 2005.

Key concerts

Chinese tour (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xian, Lijiang)
Poland tour (Warsaw, Wroclaw, Szczecin, Lublin)
Tour of India (New Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Jodpuhr, Harijan, Risk, Saharanpur)
Italian tour (Roma, Lanciano, Siena, Florence)
Hungarian Heartbeats. WOMEX opening gala (Copenhagen)
Celebration of Music. (Paris)
Miklós, Both: Unknown Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Chernihiv). Joint tour with the Hungarian State Folk Ensemble Orchestra
Miklós, Both: Radnóti - Palace of Arts
Miklós, Both: Chinese Traveller - Cafe Budapest, Millenáris Teátrum
Miklós, Both: Forgotten Christmas in Ukraine Grand Advent Concert - Várkert Bazár
Miklós, Both: Unknown Ukraine - Spring Festival, Palace of Arts

Important musical arrangements, collaborations

Festival of the Hungarian National Opera. MTV TV play - music director
Recirquel: My Land - folk music expert
Lautitia Choir Family Advent Grand Concert - composer, performer
Duna Művészegyüttes: Magyar Anzix - co-composer
Barbaro band - singer, guitarist
Extraordinary Primate Meeting - permanent soloist
Balaton Method documentary - composer, performer

PUBLIC CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Television

A Dal (MTVA) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 - jury member
Both Miklós and the Palimo Story (five-part documentary about Roma musicians in Hungary, MTVA) - main character, music director

Key public engagement

Artisjus Prize - curator
Junior Artisjus Prize - curator
Hungarian Music Awards Prize - curator
BIDF Documentary Film Festival - jury
Singing lessons in the Carpathian Basin
#Bartók, Ludwig Museum - exclusive guide
Péter Korniss: Continuous Memory, National Gallery - exclusive guide

Awards and recognition

European Citizen's Prize - European Parliament Prize, 2022
Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit, 2018
KULT50 - Fidelio Magazine, 2018
Guest of honour at the Ördögkatlan Festival, 2016
Musician of the Year - Joy of Music, 2015
Fonogram Award, Best World Music Album (double nomination), 2015
Fonogram Award, Best World Music Album, double nomination, 2014
Fonogram Award, Best World Music Album, double nomination, 2011
Songlines - Top of the World, 2010
Buda Prize, 2009
Fonogram Award for Best World Music Album, 2008

Selected international press releases

Budapest, 18 November 2022