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Name and Surname: Gábor Kiss
Academic Degrees: C.Sc. (equivalent of PhD.)
Year and Place of Birth: 1960 Budapest (Hungary)
Institutional Affiliation: Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Musicology 

Curriculum Vitae: Gábor Kiss began his career as a music teacher and a performer. From 1987 onwards he studied musicology at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and graduated in 1992. He has been on the staff of the Department of Early Music in the Institute for Musicology in Budapest since 1994. He obtained his CSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1998. In his dissertation he analyzed the medieval Hungarian repertory of ordinary melodies in the context of Central Europen traditions and also gave a complete catalogue of the Central Europen ordinary melodies. He has been responsible for the digitization of medieval sources since 1999. He publishes regularly on medieval chant both in Hungarian and in foreign languages.

Relevant Bibliography:
1. Hiley, David, Gábor Kiss, ed., Dies est leticie. Essays on Chant in Honour of Janka Szendrei. Budapest-Regensburg-Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 2008.
2. Ordinarien-Gesänge im Mitteleuropa: Repertoire-Übersicht und Melodienkatalog (= Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi. Subsidiae VI.) Kassel, Basel, etc.: Bärenreiter, 2009.
3. Ordinary Melodies in the Context of the ‘Old Roman Chant’ Question. In: Essays in Honor of László Somfai on His 70th Birthday. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2005, p. 19–44.

Links: www.zti.hu/earlymusic/earlym.html

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