Ján Hajnal

Music school in Košice, studying the piano

Košice Conservatory, studying piano and double bass

founded the Ján Hajnal Trio (accompanied by Viktor Hidvéghy – double bass, and Jozef "Dodo" Šošoka – drums), in which he still performs, with different musicians

The Jazz Quartet at the Košice Conservatory

finalist in a competition of young jazz musicians in Vienna

leader of a military band

performed at the Czechoslovak Amateur Jazz Festival in Přerov, the International Jazz Festival in Prague, and a festival of amateur groups in Salgotarján (Hungary)

member of the Tatra Singers

member of the Slovak Jazz Quintet, with which he appeared regularly at the Bratislava Jazz Days, at the Aquarium Club in Warsaw (Poland), and other venues

member of the Czechoslovak Radio Dance Orchestra in Bratislava, for which he arranged and conducted his own compositions

worked as a solo pianist abroad

member of Pavol Kozma's Esprit, with which he played at the Bratislava Jazz Days in 1985 and 1992

pianist and arranger for the Television Orchestra

performed as a part of the Ján Hajnal Quintet at Bratislava Jazz Days' Slovak Jazz Review

occasional guest performances with Pavol Kozma's Esprit

composed for Radio Bratislava's Big Band

member of Jozef "Dodo" Šošoka's All Stars Trio (Slovak Cultural Days in Budapest 1995, Woodstock Budapest 1994, Slovak Jazz Review 1994)

occasional performances (in duos with Gabo Jonáš and his wife Ria Hajnalová, and in trios with the trumpeter Ľubor Priehradník, amongst others)

appeared with the Trio at the Košice Jazz Festival

member of the Tatra Quintet (Juraj Bartoš – trumpet, clarion; Milo Suchomel – tenor saxophone; Ján Hajnal – piano, leader; Peter Čudek – double bass; Peter Solárik – drums; Ria Hajnalová – vocals)

a focus on solo jazz piano

played solo piano at the International Jazz Festival in Prague

a jazz recital at the Bratislava Music Festival

member of the Classical & Jazz Art Duo with Prof. Miloš Jurkovič (flute) in a programme entitled Bach & Jazz, which played for Slovak Radio in Bratislava, at Bratislava Castle, the Přerov Jazz Festival, and the Trenčín Musical Autumn, amongst other events the present currently works with the American drummer, Bobby Durham, in Switzerland, and with the Austrian musicians Georg Breinschmid (bass guitar) and Christian Sallfelner (drums); plays concerts solo (at venues such as Leighton House in London) and as part of a duo (the Classical & Jazz Art Duo); he is also greatly interested in the theme of classical music played in jazz style (Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Suchoň, Cikker, Zeljenka, and Alexander Moyzes).