• 1980 – 1988

    member of the Bratislava big band

  • 1981 – 1986

    Bratislava Conservatory, trumpet

  • 1983 – 1986

    member of the Bratislava Conservatory Big Band

  • 1986 – 1990

    member of Peter Lipa’s Combo

  • 1986 – 1992

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

  • 1988 – 1993

    member of Emil Viklický Quartet

  • 1990

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

  • 1991 – 1992

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

  • 1992

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

  • 1993

    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)

  • 1993 – 1995

    member of Štepán Markovič band Jazz Face

  • 1994

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

  • 1995

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

  • since 1996

    member of the Gustav Brom Orchestra

  • 1996

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

  • 1998

    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)

  • 1999

    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)

  • 2001

    appearance at the BJD (Hot House)

  • 2002

    appearance at the BJD with Miki Skuta Club

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    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.

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    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.)

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