Kristina Lomen

Mgr. art. Kristina Lomen, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist and ethnomusicologist. She completed her university studies at the Department of Music Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. From 2013 to 2017, she was a full-time doctoral student at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where in 2017 she earned her PhD. with a dissertation titled Piesňová tradícia Slovákov v regióne Vojvodina v Srbsku (Song Tradition of Slovaks in the Vojvodina Region of Serbia).

Kristina Lomen’s scientific research so far has focused on the study of the song traditions of ethnic minorities. She paid particular attention to researching the traditional song culture of the Slovak minority in various localities within the territory of Vojvodina, Serbia, where a sizable Slovak community still lives today. In her research, she builds on the approaches of ethnomusicological schools from Central Europe and the Balkans, utilizing methods from ethnomusicology and music theory.

She has published several scholarly articles and studies and regularly participates in musicological conferences. In 2024, her second monograph was published, Collection of Slovak Folk Songs from Vojvodina by Ján Lomen; her first was Tradičná piesňová kultúra Slovákov v Starej Pazove v Srbsku (2021) (Traditional Song Culture of Slovaks in Stara Pazova, Serbia). Currently, she works as a research fellow at the Department of Ethnomusicology.