Prof. Dr. János Sipos is professor at the Liszt University of Music, the Hungarian Representative of the International Council of Traditional Music, senior research fellow of Institute for Musicology, and Member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts.His main research area is the comparative study of the folk music of Turkic speaking pople and also exploring the Hungarian relations. His collecting work began in 1987, where Béla Bartók stopped in 1936, and since then he has collected, recorded and analyzed more than ten thousand Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen, Karachay, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Navajo and Dakota melodies. His 18 books, 168 articles and hundreds of hours of video and audio recordings can be viewed at wwwztihu/sipos