Maria Pako

* May 4, 1958, Rimaszombat / musician, educator ; ; Mária Páko's life is music and the musical education of children. As a teacher of the Rimaszombat College, she worked with talented children in the music department for 30 years. She organized talent competitions for students several times and helped start some bands. In 1989, she won the "SLÁVICI NA ULICI" competition. She loved to set poems by our Gömör poets (Mihály Tompa, Lajos Pósa, István Bettes, János Vörös, István G. Kovács, Dezső Győry, Miklós Radnóti, Endre Ady, László Mécs). In 2002, at the request of Pátria Radio, she and Attila Demjén produced the album Gömöri Gyöngyszemek. literary compilation, with which they won the international grand prize at a competition in Uzhhorod in 2005. ; Currently, he works as an assistant at the Hungarian-medium Special Elementary School in Rimaszombat. He is the brainchild of the Special Superstar regional competition, which the school organizes every year.   He leads a music club at the Tompa Mihály Reformed High School, and teaches guitar lessons at the Heuréka Private Elementary School. He is the founder and leader of the TOMPA VIRÁGAI, CSILLAGVIRÁG, and GITÁROS SOKK youth groups, with which they have regularly achieved gold medals in the Tompa Mihály National Competition in the category of poems set to music for the last three years (2015-2017). In addition, he tours the country with his poems set to music and gives extraordinary music lessons to kindergarten, elementary school and high school students. He gives every child an instrument as soon as possible, has them play in an orchestra, and organizes performances for them in Rimaszombat, Putnok, Kazincbarcika, Ózd, and Eger. He believes that playing music itself is an educational force, which is even more powerful in a community. And from the experience of success, the child gains healthy self-confidence and, as a result, support, and this is the most that can be given to youth today. To his great joy, a long-cherished dream came true this year. The Örömzene workshop, which he founded for music-loving children, began operating. ; However, what she is perhaps most proud of is her unique collection of guitars and plucked instruments, which were first exhibited in Sajószentpéter, Hungary, in 2005, and then in the Rimaszombat museum in 2017. ; In 2014, Mária Páko received a certificate from the mayor of Rimaszombat in recognition of her dedicated work for the city, and in 2015 she was proclaimed the personality of the region. ; ;