Agnes Kory is a graduate of the Béla Bartók Conservatoire Budapest, Royal Academy of Music London (DipRAM) and the University of London (BMus, MMus, MPhil). She is a teacher, performer and also a researcher in historical musicology.

Agnes Kory's MPhil thesis on Bartók and Ethnomusicology was highly praised by the examiners for the University of London in December 2004. They deemed the thesis far reaching in importance for future Bartók scholars and they urged publication. In May 2006 Agnes Kory was awarded the Béla Bartók Memorial Prize for her research/presentations on Bartók and for her work in music education.

Agnes Kory's scholarly publications include:

'A wider role for the tenor violin?' Galpin Society Journal, 1994, pp. 123-153.

'Leopold Wilhelm and his patronage of music with special reference to opera', Studia Musicologica, 1995, pp. 11-25.

'Boccherini and the cello', Early Music, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, November 2005, pp. 749 -751.

'The significance of the tenor violin', The Consort, vol. 62, Summer 2006, pp. 63 – 91.

From 1970 to 1972 Agnes Kory was principal cellist of the Royal Ballet orchestra, Royal Opera House and from 1974 to 1987 she was a cellist of the English National Opera orchestra.

Her recent concert and opera reviewing experiences range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Earlier in the year, her special coverage included reports of her summer visit to musical events in Budapest and of Don Giovanni at the Budapest Opera in October.

More recently, she has reviewed an excellent CD by the violinist Vadim Gluzman; a concert of Bach Cantatas with Andreas Scholl; and a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Jiri Belohlávek.