Dr. János Sipos is a Senior researcher of the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, Hungarian Representative of the International Council for Traditional Music and as well as a lecturer of the Franz Liszt Music Academy. 

From 1987 he has been spending some 100 months, in areas inhabited by different Turkish people and collected more then 10.000 songs in Anatolia (1987-2012 many times), Thrace (1999-2003), Kazakhstan (1995, 1997), Azerbaijan (1999, 2004, 2005), Kyrgyzstan (2002, 2004), Turkmenistan (2011), Karachays in the Caucasus (2000), Karachays in Turkey (2001, 2002, 2005) and American Indians (2004-2005). Based on his field work he published 16 books, (7 in English, 6 in Hungarian, 1 in Turkish and 1 in Azeri language).

Between the years of 1994-1997, he has accomplished his  Ph.D. from Linguistics-Ethnomusicology  at A. József University ,Szeged. His dissertation title is: Béla Bartók’s Anatolian Research in the Light of a Larger Material In 1978, he had his degree B.Sc. in Mathematics.  Title of thesis: Computer aided Analysis on FolkMusic Rhythms, A. József University, Szeged. 

From 1998  to 2001,he has worked as a research fellow  in Oriental Archives of the House of Traditions, Budapest.

His teaching activities are as follows:  ( 1993-1997) Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Altaic Studies, Szeged JATE University, (1988–1993)Lecturer, Dept. of Hungarology, Ankara University, Turkey Lecturer at the Folk Music Department of the Franz List Music Academy, Budapest (from2007 onwards). His has  some memberships of  Scientific Societies such as: Hungarian representative of the International Council of Traditional Music International Council of Traditional Music, Music of Turkic Speaking People Study Group, founding member European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, member International Kodály Society: László Vikár Folk Music Research Forum, founding member. 

Some books of the János Sipos : 

● Török Népzene I. (Turkish Folk Music 1), Budapest, Institute for Musicology of the HAS, 1994. 412 p.

● Török Népzene II. (Turkish Folk Music 2), Budapest, Institute for Musicology of the HAS, 1995. 426 p.

● In the Wake of Bartók in Anatolia, Budapest, European Folklore Institute 2000. 350 p. (Bibliotheca Traditionis Europeae 2.)

● Kazakh Folksongs From the Two Ends of the Steppe, Budapest, Academy Publishing House, 2001. 302 p.

● Azeri folksongs - At the Fountain-Head of Music, Budapest, Academy Publishing House, 2004. 623 p.

● Comparative Analysis of Hungarian and Turkic Folk Music, TIKA (Türk İşbirliği ve Kalkınma İdaresi Başkanlığı) and Ankara Hungarian Embassy, 2006, Ankara, 320 p.

● Azerbaycan El Havaları - Musiqinin İlk Qaynaqlarında, Bakû, Azerbaycan, 2006, 610 p.

● Bartók'un izninde Anadolu'da, Pan Yayinevi, Istanbul, 2009, p. 225

● The Psalms and the Folk Songs of a Mystic Turkish Order with DVD attachement, Academy Publishing House Budapest, 2009, p. 710.

● A Kaukázusi karacsájok népzenéje (Folk Music of the Karachays in the Caucasus Mountains) with DVD attachement, L’Harmattan Publishing House, Budapest, 2012

● Shaman Songs (with M. Hoppal), International Society for Shamanic Research, Budapest, 2012

● Kyrgyz Folksongs, Budapest: l’Harmattan Publishing House, 2014.

Some Articles of János Sipos (2007-2009):

● A Musical Map of Different Turkic-Speaking Peoples as Based on Field Work from 1936 until the Present, In: International Review of Turkish Studies, Vol.: 2, Issue: 4, Utrecht - The Netherlands: Institute for Turkish Studies, 2012, pp. 46-61

 ● A Musicological Note on the Blessing of the Sakha Healer, Shaman, Vol. 21, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring and Autumn 2013, Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Molnar@Kelemen Oriental Publisher, Budapest, 2013, pp. 192-196

● From the Spiritual to the Profane and Back: the Relationship Between Folk Religion and Folk Songs of some Turkic People, In: International Conference/Workshop “Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan: Performance and Belief”, Cambridge, Anglia, 2012, Camberley: Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Pr., pp. 18-19.

● Trakya Bektaşilerinin Tasavvufî ve Halk Müziği İle Anadolu Halk Müziği Arasındaki Bağlantılar, In: Doğumunun 800. Yılında Hacı Bektaş Veli Sempozyumu Bildiriler, 17-18 Ağustos, 2009, Nevşehir, pp. 235-244

● On folk music research and some possible goals of the IKS László Vikár Forum, In: Intersections: Music, Tradition and Education, Coordinadores: Jerry-Louis Jaccard and Hilda Mercedes Morán Quiroz, C o l le c c i ó n Estudios del Hombre, Serie Antropología, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2011, Ed. by Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Visite nuestro catálogo: www.cucsh.udg.mx, pp. 15-26.

● Where Bartók Left Off: Researching Turkic Elements in Hungarian Folksong, In: Intersections: Music, Tradition and Education, Coordinadores: Jerry-Louis Jaccard and Hilda Mercedes Morán Quiroz, C o l le c c i ó n Estudios del Hombre, Serie Antropología, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2011, Ed. by Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Visite nuestro catálogo: www.cucsh.udg.mx, 67-110.

● Trakya Bektaşi Ezgilerin Siniflandirilmasi ve Avrasya Çerçevesi, In Alevilik-Bektaşilik Araştırmaları Dergisi 2, 2010, Köln: Alevi-Bektaşi Kültür Enstitüsü, pp.35-46, On Internetes:www.abkedergi.de/2_tr.asp

● Categorization of Thrace Bektashi Melodies and Their Relations to Eurasian Melody Styles, In: Forschungszeitschrift über Alevitentum und Bektaschitentum , Heft: 2, Winter 2010, Köln: Önel Verlag

● Is it possible to use the maqam conception in analyzing and classifying vocal monophonic folk music material? Preceedings of the International Musicological Symposium, "Space of Mugham" March 2009, Serk-Qerb, Baku, pp. 397-407.

● A Lament from Bartók’s Anatolian Collection and its Musical Background, Studia Musicologia, Vol. 48, Numbers 1-2, March 2007, pp. 201-213.

● A comparative research on the folk music of Turkic people - from Béla Bartók to our days, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Turkologie, Seminar für Orientkunde, 2007, Mainz, Germany.

● Basic musical forms in a Bektashi community, International Workshop and Conference “Music of the Turkic-speaking world, performance and the Master-Apprentice system of oral transmission”, 2007, SOAS, University of London, Great-Britain.

● Similar melody Styles in Kazakh and Hungarian Folk Music, In Traditional Music of Turkic People: Present and Future, pp. 249-266, Ministry of Culture, Kazakhstan, Kizilorda, 2006.

● Egy most felfedezett belső-mongóliai kvintváltó stílus és magyar vonatkozásai, Ethnographia 112 (2001 [2004!]) 1-2: 1-80.

● “Talking to the Ongons”: The Invocation Text and Music of a Darkhad Shaman, Shaman, Budapest, Molnár & Kelemen Oriental Publishers, 12 (2004 Spring/Autumn) 1–2: 25-62. (with Á. Birtalan).

● The Central Style of Azeri Folksongs, Journal of Turkic Civilization Studies, No. 1 (2004), Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University Publication: 62, Center for Turkic Civilization Studies Publication: 7, Bishkek, 2004.

● Report on my Expedition in the Caucasus, In Néptörténet-Nyelvtörténet. A 70-éves Róna-Tas András köszöntése.eds. L. Károly and É. Kincses Nagy, Szeged, 2001: 155-184.

● Similar musical structure in Turkish, Mongolian, Tungus and Hungarian folk music, In Historical and Linguistic Interaction between Inner-Asia and Europe (ed. Á. Berta), Szeged, 1997: 305–317.

● Connection between Turkish songs having different structures, In The Fifth International Turkish Folklore Congress, Vol III. Ankara, 1996: 56–65.

Some conferences: 

 ● 4th Symposium of the „Music of the Turkic Speaking World” ICTM Study Group (Turkic World and Neighbours - Similarity and Differences in Music), 18-20 April, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey, Are There Common Traditional Vocal Folk Music Styles In The Music of The Turkic Speaking Peoples?

 ● 42nd World Conference of the ICTM, org. by ICTM & Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shanghai, China, 10-18 July, 2013, On the singing and dancing of some Asian Sufi communities and Shamans

● Third Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music, org. by ICTM Study Group for Multipart Music és az MTA BTK ZTI, MTA BTK ZTI Bartók Room, 12-16 September, 2013, Traces of Multipart Music in Some Turkic-Speaking Communities

● Musical Geographies Of Central Asia - International Conference, org. by The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study in association with School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2012 16-17 May, 2012, London, A Musical Map of Different Turkic-Speaking Peoples as based on Field Work from 1936 until the Present

 ● International Conference/Workshop “Popular Culture in Turkic Asia and Afghanistan: Performance and Belief”, 1-2 December, 2012, Cambridge/U.K., Org. University of Cambridge, British Council and Türksoy, From the spiritual to the profane and back: the relation of folk religion and folk songs of some Turkic people.

● Hungaroloji Kongresi, Dil Tarih ve Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara Üniversitesi, 24-28 October, 2011, Finnugor nyelv versus török-mongol népzene

● VIII. International Turkish Folk Culture Congress, Antalya, 21-24 November, 2011, Türk Halklarının Halk Müziğini Araştıran ve Karşılaştıran Bir Grubun Oluşturulmasına Dair bir Öneri

●Second Meeting of the ICTM Study Group On Music Of The Turkic-Speaking World, topic: Vocal Traditions of Free-metric Singing in Eurasia, Place: Berlin Free University, Institute for Turcology, Berlin, 2010. 17-2 Mart 2010, Free-metric Singing among Azerbaijani People – Folk Song and Mugham

● 11th International Congress for Fenno-Ugric Studies, Fenno-Ugric Peoples and Languages in the 21th century, a Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem campusa, Piliscsaba, 9-14. Aug. 2010, Néhány gondolat a magyar népzene finnugor és török kapcsolatairól

● XXVI. European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), szervező: MTA ZTI, helyszín: Bartók terem, Budapest, 22-26 Sept., 2010, The Music of the Karachay People

● Magyarország-Azerbajdzsán: a kultúrák párbeszéde, MTA Néprajzi Kutatóintézet és az Azerbajdzsáni Nagykövetség, 17-19 Nov., 2009, Budapest., Azerbajdzsáni mugam és népzene

● XXVI European Seminar for Ethnomusicology, Institute of Musicology of the Warsaw University, Varsó, 17-21 Sept., 2008, The Musical Repertoire of a Mystic Islamic Order and its Relation to Some Other Folk Music's

●"Technical challenges and developments in 21st century folk music archiving” ZTI konferencia, MTA ZTI, Budapest, 12 July, 2008. Using artificial intelligence for comparative musicology on Eurasian folk music - In the wake of a special musical structure

● ICTM Conference, Music of the Turkic Speaking People Study Group, July, 2007,Vienna, Tradition and revival: how do musical styles of Karachays living in Turkey change?

● Conference on Music in the World of Islam, 7-11th August, Assilah, Morocco, 2007, In the wake of Bartók – similar musical layers in Europe and Asia

● The Music of the Turkic Speaking People - ICTM Study Group founding conference, SOAS, 3-4th February, 2006, London, The Preservation of the Musical Heritage of the Turkic Speaking World by Computer Aided Comparative Programs

● Seminar für Orientkunde, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, July, 2006 Mainz, Germany, A comparative research on the folk music of Turkic people - from Bartók to our days.

● School of Music, 4th January, 2005, Provo, Utah, USA, Musico-linguistic trail of the Turkic Element of the Hungarian People.

● The 38th World Conference of the International Council of Traditional Music, 3-9 August, 2005, Sheffield, U.K., The Religious Music and Dances of the Bektashis Living in Thrace

● 6th International Congress on Turkish Culture, Atatürk Culture Center, 21-26 November, 2005, Ankara, About Some Similar Melody Styles in Europe, Turkey and Asia

● The 37th ICTM World Conference, 4-11 January, 2004, Fuzhou & Quanzhou, China, An Inner Mongolian pentatonic fifth-shifting style and its relevance to Hungarian and Volga-Region folk music

Fieldworks: 

Backed by OTKA (=Hungarian Scientific Research Fund)

- 01/01/1999-31/12/2002, Comparative research on Kazakh-Hungarian-Anatolian folk music and folk text, 029037 OTKA - Fieldwork in Kazakhstan, Turkey and the Caucasus

-01/01/2003-31/12/2006, Comparative research on Karachay-Malkar–Kyrgyz–Azeri–Hungarian folk music and folk text, 42461 OTKA

- 01/07/2007-30/09/2011, The eastern connection of the Hungarian folk music – The folk music of the Karachay people and Bektashis living in Turkey, 67997 OTKA

- 01/02/2006-31/08/2015, Computer aided research on the eastern relations of the Hungarian folk music, 81954 OTKA