Marta Hulková

Prof. PhDr. Marta Hulková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist and university professor. She is among the leading Slovak musicologists specializing in early Slovak music and is a protégé of the musicological school of Jozef Kresánek. She studied piano performance at the Conservatory in Bratislava and musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. She spent almost her entire professional career teaching and, since 2005, has been a full professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. There, she taught music-historical subjects such as musical palaeography, music historiography, history of Slovak music, and edition of early music.

Her specialization lies in the research of early music culture history, specifically the 16th and 17th centuries in the territory of Slovakia and the broader Central European region. Through her research and scholarly work, she contributed to the preservation, processing, and revival of several musical monuments from Slovakia. As part of her rigorous thesis, she worked on the Ľubický Spevník and later also focused on the Levočská zbierka hudobnín (Levoča collection of music manuscripts). She completed her habilitation at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava with a thesis titled Hudobné pramene 17. storočia na území Slovenska (Musical Sources of the 17th Century in the Territory of Slovakia), and her inaugural professorial lecture at the Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra was titled Hudobná výchova v kontexte hudobnej kultúry starších dejín na Slovensku (Music Education in the Context of the Musical Culture of Earlier History in Slovakia). She was also a research fellow at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.

Marta Hulková publishes in domestic and international scholarly journals (Musicologica Slovaca, Musaica, Slovenská Hudba, Musicologica Istropolitana, Huděbní Věda, Musicologica Olomucensia, Acta Musicologica, Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae) and in conference proceedings (Prague, Olomouc, Bad Köstritz, Halle, Stuttgart, Vienna, Bydgoszcz, Warsaw, Krakow, Bratislava, Martin, etc.).

She has served as the principal investigator of several research projects and has completed international research stays in Hungary and the Czech Republic. Since 2012, she has been a member of the international project Musica Rudolphina under the Foundation for the History of Culture in Central Europe (Prague). Since 2015, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Slovak National Museum – Music Museum, and since 2017, she has served on the editorial board of the musicological journal Musica Iagellonica (Kraków).

She is a member of the Slovak Musicological Association and a reviewer of both domestic and international scholarly monographs in the field of music culture history (notably works by Darina Múdra, Jiří Sehnal, Kateřina Maýrová, Jana Kalinayová-Bartová, Eva Veselovská, Peter Ruščin, and others). She also serves as an evaluator of research projects for domestic and international grant agencies (Bratislava, Prague, Budapest).

At the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, she founded the annual publication Musicologica Istropolitana (since 2002) and the source-critical music edition Musicalia Istropolitana (since 2007). She also established the book series Hudobnohistorický výskum na Slovensku začiatkom 21. storočia (Music-Historical Research in Slovakia in the Early 21st Century), which features outputs from conferences as well as successfully defended dissertations and rigorous theses.

In recognition of her pedagogical and scholarly contributions, she was awarded the Jozef Kresánek Prize in 2011. Many of her students have gone on to achieve remarkable results in the field of early music research.