Kónya Sándor

Born in Čoka in 1952, he attended primary school there and still lives there today. He completed his basic music education in Senta. After graduating from the Subotica Technical High School and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Novi Sad, he worked as a technical inspector and then as a tool designer at the Čoka Foundry. He taught mechanical engineering subjects at the Čoka secondary school from 1983, where he served as director between 1990 and 2001. In addition to his teaching career, he is involved in collecting and popularizing Vojvodina folk songs and hymns, and setting to music the poems of Vojvodina poets. As a singer-songwriter and minstrel, he frequently performs in various parts of Vojvodina, and occasionally in Hungary and Transylvania, at book launches, literary evenings, lectures, and celebrations. Commissioned by the leadership of the Little Saint Therese Parish in Senta, he composed a hymn for the consecration of the new memorial church in 2017.