Zsuzsanna Domokos PhD graduated from the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest in 1987. Since 1986 she worked as a researcher at the at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre at the Academy of Music, from 2002 also as vice director, from 2009 to December 2024 as director. In 1993 she earned her university doctorate on her dissertation about Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, and her PhD dissertation with the title The influence of the 19th century Roman Palestrina reception on Liszt’s music was defended in 2009.
With Hungarian State scholarships she has worked in Moskow, St. Petersbourg, Vienna and Rome. She has delivered lectures at domestic and international conferences in Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy, Finnland, France and Slovenia. Her sudies has been published in Hungary and abroad in journals of musicology. She organized exhibitions and historical concerts in Budapest and abroad, she was the organizer of the Liszt Birthday Festival in 2011 2016 and in 2021 at the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum, Academy of Music, Budapest. In 2016 she initiated the cooperation of the Liszt Museums in Europe, and since then she has been working on it. In 2020 and 2021 she was responsible for launching publications of Liszt’s unknown manuscripts in the museum’s holdings (English word facsimile book and 4 language Digibook with archive DVD recordings). In 2022 she delivered a lecture at the Cardiff University, in 2023 she held a masterclass in Paris, École Pratiques des Hautes Études.