János Malina
János Malina has been president of the Hungarian Haydn Society since 1996. He has been the principal organizer and music director of the Haydn at Eszterháza Music Festival, a board members of the Sopron Early Music Days Festival and the Hungarian Music Council, vice president of the Réseau Européenne de Musique Ancienne, and editor-in-chief of Editio Musica Budapest. His most recent scholarly activities have focused on opera performance at Eszterháza. He serves as president of the International Opera Foundation Eszterháza, and last fall delivered the paper “Haydn’s Workshop: The Second Opera House at Eszterháza” at the American Musicological Society annual meeting. Malina, along with Ferenc Dávid, Carston Jung, and Edward McCue, has been exploring the archival materials associated with the second Eszterháza opera house, uncovering information about the architecture, sets, costumes, and other production concerns at Eszterháza.