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1924 – 1927
Teachers' Institute in Banská Bystrica (piano, organ and violin – Viliam Figuš-Bystrý)
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1930 – 1935
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (violin – N. Kubát)
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1935 – 1939
studies at the Academy of Education in Bratislava
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1941, 1943
state examinations in violin, piano, organ music and singing
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1950 – 1953
attended musicology and philosophy seminars at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University, later conducting and singing at the Academy of Performing Arts (V. Talich)
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1939 – 1945
teacher at the Teachers' Institute in Bratislava
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1945 – 1949
head of Traditional folk music department of the Košice Radio
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1949 – 1951
co-founder and first artistic director of the SĽUK ensemble
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1951 – 1954
head of the Traditional folk music production department of the Slovak Radio in Bratislava
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1954 – 1966
conductor of the ĽUT ensemble
Pavol Tonkovič worked as a music teacher in various cities in Slovakia (Filipov, Pohronská Polhora, Brezno, Svätý Jur, Bratislava).