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1972 – 1976
Conservatory in Bratislava (composition with Jozef Sixta and Andrej Očenáš, piano with Brigita Starostová)
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1976 – 1979
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composition with Dezider Kardoš); during the study active as bass-guitarist and guitarist in hard-rock (Nautilus) and jazzrock (Forum 57 – with Peter Breiner) groups
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in 1979
emigrated to USA and lived in San Diego, California; established groups of progressive rock Nimbus Obi and later Laser Maze
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until 2000
keyboard player in the group Studebaker Hawk interperetating classical rock of 70-ties, since that time he's devoting especially to composition
Jozef Kolkovič studied composition with Andrej Očenáš, Jozef Sixt, and later, at the Academy of Performing Arts, with Dezider Kardoš, but after his third year (in 1979) he decided to emigrate and made a name for himself as a virtuoso keyboard player in various progressive rock bands on the West Coast of the USA. Although he belongs to an informal group of composers defined by the names Burlas, Godár, and Breiner, his compositional language can only be assigned to the "postmodern" trend with difficulty, at least as far as the return to tonality and historical forms is concerned. These tendencies affected him only marginally; he remained modernist in orientation, intellectually demanding, expressive, and maximalist in relation to the possibilities of his chosen instrumental medium and also in his demands on the performer.
(KOLÁŘ, Robert. Jubilanti: Peter Breiner a Jozef Kolkovič. Albrechtina: Jozef Kolkovič 60. In: Hudobný život, 2017, č. 7-8)