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1960 – 1965
Comenius University Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava (musicology and musical education), 1969 title of PhDr.
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1965 – 1968
methodologist in the Regional Enlightenment Centre in Banská Bystrica, later editor of the daily Smer in Banská Bystrica
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1968 – 1978
deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Hudobný život
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1978 – 1986
secretary of the Commission of Concert Artists, later of the Commission of Musicologists in the Slovak Composers’ Union
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1986 – 1988
dramaturge of the Chamber Opera of Slovak Philharmonia
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1988 – 1990
press secretary of Slovak Philharmonia
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1990 – 1999
deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine Slovenka
PhDr. Terézia Ursínyová is a Slovak musicologist, music journalist, editor, and dramaturge. She studied at the Pedagogical School in Trnava and later completed a degree in musicology at Comenius University in Bratislava. Already during her studies, she began writing for the daily newspaper Smena and has devoted her entire career to journalism.
At first, while working at the Regional Cultural Centre in Banská Bystrica, she contributed to the regional daily Smer. From 1968, she became deputy editor-in-chief of the newly established music biweekly Hudobný život (Musical Life).
Terézia Ursínyová also worked as the secretary of several commissions of the Union of Slovak Composers and as a dramaturge of the Chamber Opera of the Slovak Philharmonic. From 1988 to 1990, she served as press secretary of the Slovak Philharmonic. She then returned to editorial work at the weekly magazine Slovenka.
Ursínyová focuses primarily on musical theatre (operetta, musical, opera) and on documenting and commenting on current musical life in Slovakia. She has published numerous articles, reviews, and studies in various periodicals and daily newspapers. She is the author of dozens of music and spoken-word programs for Slovak Radio and musical scripts for Slovak Television. She currently also writes for the online portal operaslovakia.sk.
In her publication Cesty Operety (The Paths of Operetta), she provided an overview of the history and present of this theatrical genre as well as of Slovak musical theatre. She remained devoted to the topic of musical theatre in a memoir-style publication co-authored with Mária Kišonová-Hubová, titled Volali ma Mimi (They Called Me Mimi, 2001), and in a book about the leading dramatic soprano of the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre, Elena Kittnarová, titled Život na dvoch scénach (Life on Two Stages, 2004).
Her book Zlaté hlasy (Golden Voices, 2014), published by Perfekt, presents portraits and interviews with seventeen prominent Slovak vocal artists.
For her lifelong contribution to music journalism, she has received several prestigious awards.