Juraj Bartoš

member of the Bratislava big band

Bratislava Conservatory, trumpet

member of the Bratislava Conservatory Big Band

member of Peter Lipa’s Combo

Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava, trumpet (with Kamil Roško)

member of Emil Viklický Quartet

founder of the Bratislava Hot Serenaders Orchestra, focusing on 1920’s and 1930’s music (American jazz, Slovak dance music etc.)

member of The Quartet (Juraj Bartoš – trumpet; Mikuláš Škuta – piano; Juraj Griglák – bass guitar, Cyril Zeleňák – percussion)

member of the Brass Meeting courses in Grieskirchen (AT), lecturers: P. Thibauld, A. van Rooyer

touring the Netherlands and Germany with Ray Charles Orchestra; appearance at the BJD as a leader of Juraj Bartoš Quintet (Štepán Markovič – saxophone; Emil Viklický – piano; Juraj Griglák – bass guitar, Cyril Zeleňák – percussion)

member of Štepán Markovič band Jazz Face

first place at the Repetition contest New-Orleans Jazz (Saint-Raphael, FR)

soloist of an international big band in Varna (Anatoly Vapirov) and of the European Broadcasting Union big band (EBU, Prague, CZ)

member of the Gustav Brom Orchestra

post-graduate studies of trumpet at the Academy of Music and Drama

appearance during the Slovak Culture Days in Zagreb (HR) with the Slovak Jazz Quartet (Juraj Bartoš – trumpet; Juraj Griglák – bass guitar; Jozef „Dodo” Šošoka – percussion)

founded a be-bop band Hot House (Juraj Bartoš – trumpet, cornet; Juraj Griglák – double bass; Ondrej Krajňák – piano; Radovan Tariška – alto saxophone; Marián Ševčík – percussion)

appearance at the BJD (Hot House)

appearance at the BJD with Miki Skuta Club

cooperation with a number of Slovak and international jazzmen, e.g. Matúš Jakabčic, Juraj Tatár, Emil Viklický, Robert Balzar, Štepán Markovič, Svatopluk Košvanec, Jan Konopásek, Larry Smith, Django Bates, Heinrich von Kalnein, Billy Jenkins etc.

apart from jazz, Juraj Bartoš also performs in concerts of classical music – used to be a soloist of the Slovak Philharmonic, Košice State Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Zlín Philharmonic; his repertory includes concerts for trumpet and orchestra (T. Albioni, A. Vivaldi, G. Ph. Telemann, L. Mozart, G. F. Fasch, J. S. Bach, G. F. Händel, G. Tartini, J. Haydn, J. N. Humell, B. Martinů, H. Tomasi etc.)