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1992 – 1997
Studies at the Conservatory in Žilina, Violin Performance, under Mgr. Anna Hrochová
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1996 – 2000
Studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Faculty of Music and Dance, field of Music Art – Pedagogy of Music Theory (Bachelor’s degree) and Music Theory (Master of Arts – Mgr. art.)
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1997 – 1999
Teacher at the Elementary School of Arts in Martin
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1999 – 2003
Teacher at the Frico Kafenda Elementary School of Arts in Vrútky
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2001 – 2005
Member of the Board of the Turiec Seniorate of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
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2002
Lecturer at the Department of Music of the Faculty of Humanities and at the Institute of Lifelong Learning / University of the Third Age of the University of Žilina in Žilina; 2009 – 2013 Member of the Academic Senate of the University of Žilina
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2002 – 2004
Coordinator of Church Music (Chairman of the Church Music Committee) of the Turiec Seniorate of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
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2003 – 2012
Assistant Conductor of the Faculty Mixed Choir OMNIA at the University of Žilina
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2004 – 2006
Doctoral studies in the field of Music Theory and Pedagogy at the University of Ostrava, Ostrava (PhD.)
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2008 – 2013
Lecturer at the Department of Theory and History of Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava
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2018 – 2022
Teacher at the Private Conservatory of Music and Drama in Rimavská Sobota
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2019
Completed specialized training focused on the education of children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
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2022 – 2023
Completed an educational program Tourist Guide (Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic)
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Since 2022
Teacher at the Private Elementary School of Arts Jánoš in Ružomberok
Mgr. art. Juraj Ruttkay, PhD. is a Slovak musician, musicologist, music educator, and publicist. He grew up in the well-known musical Karvay family in Vrútky.
Ruttkay studied violin at the Conservatory in Žilina, music theory at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU), and earned his doctorate at the Department of Music Education of the Faculty of Education at the University of Ostrava.
His teaching portfolio includes experience at both the university level and elementary art schools. In Vrútky, he was active in a string orchestra and also worked as the conductor of a youth choir. From 2001 to 2005, he also served as a choir cantor – organist and conductor of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession congregation in Vrútky.
Ruttkay was a member of several expert commissions and juries, for example at the international student arts competition Ars paedagogica at the University of Hradec Králové, at the regional music festival Strunobranie in Kanianka near Prievidza, and others. In 2011, he collaborated on the creation of the nationwide magazine for university students of the Slovak Republic, Projekt Eurocampus Slovenská republika. He was also a member of the organizing committee of the scientific seminar European Musical Culture in Mutual Relations and Influences, held as part of the World Congress of the Society for Sciences and Arts in Žilina in July 2012.
As an organizer, in 2012 and 2013 he participated in two colloquia entitled Musicology and Contemporary Musical Culture at the Department of Music, Faculty of Humanities, University of Žilina.
In 2008 and 2011, he was nominated for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Žilina.