She won the 1st prize at the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition in Philadelphia in 1985.

She was appointed to the head of the department of the Voice Department as associate professor
(docent, reader), and she has been acting as the chairman from 1997.
She was awarded Doctor of Liberal Arts (D.L.A.) degree in 2003 and then he received the title of
university (full) professor.[2]
She is a notable and respected artist both in Hungary and around the world and developed significant
artistic and professional relationships.[3]
She has been one of the founders of the József Simándy International Singing Competition from 1998.
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Sukumaran practices media art using a variety of media to convey complex ideas around public and
private, and technology and society.
"Ashok's recent work examines possibilities between human habitat and "embedded" technologies: the
physical and social sites of digital media. In adopting the view that many new-media technologies are
not fundamentally new, his projects often imagine "what could have been" across the disciplines of
interactive art, early and pre-cinema, and architecture." [1]
"My recent work deals with the intersection of human habitat and technologies being ‘embedded’
within it. These are concerns about how technologies sit on the ground, what patterns they establish,
and how we may move between them. The technologies themselves may range from electricity to
imaging technologies or wirelessness, for example. I am interested in how we collectively 'see' them,
and negotiate the property boundaries, systems administrators, and thresholds of understanding
inscribed within." (Artist's personal statement)
She was born on 29 July 1957 in Szeged, Hungary. Her birth name was Mária Tóth.
Before her graduation she won the 4th prize at the International Maria Callas Grand Prix in Athens in
1979.
She took BA degree in music and piano teaching at the Franz Liszt College of Music at the
Conservatory of Szeged in 1979 and M.A. degree in opera studies and in education in 1981 at the Franz
Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest.[1]
After her graduation she became the member of the Hungarian State Opera House in 1981.