• 1960 – 1964

    Košice Conservatory, piano (Mária Mašíková-Hemerková) and violin (František Vodička)

  • 1964 – 1970

    Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, piano (Rudolf Macudzinski)

  • 1966 – 1968

    state scholarship at the Ferenc Liszt Music University in Budapest, piano (Tibor Erkel)

  • 1974 – 1976

    post-graduate studies at the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, piano (Viktor Ivanovič Nosov)

  • 1971 – 1972

    recipient of the Slovak Music Fund scholarship

  • 1976 – 1978

    doctorate at the Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, piano (Eva Fischerová) 1986 studies of university pedagogy at the Institute for Development of Universities in the Slovak Socialist Republic in Bratislava

  • 1975 – 1978

    member of the Trio Istropolitanum (Cyril Studýnka – vn, Richard Vandra – vc) 1981 – 1992 soloist of the Košice State Philharmonic

  • 1971 – 1972

    cooperating lecturer and 1972 – 1976 assistant lecturer at the Dept. of Music Education of the Faculty of Education, Comenius University in Trnava

  • 1978 – 1980

    guest lecturer at the Higher Institute of Music in Kuwait

  • since 1981

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, secretary of the Dept. of Keyboard Instruments (1981 – 1985), vice-dean (1991 – 1997), dean of the Faculty of Music and Dance (1998 – 2000), associate Professor (1990) and Professor (1997), piano teacher and lecturer of the following courses: performance seminar, piano history and repertory

  • 1994 – 1995

    lecturer of international summer master classes organised by the Slovkoncert agency and 1997 of a seminar for Japanese participants

  • 1998 –1999

    lecturer in master classes in South Korea (Pusan)

  • member and/or chair of jury at international contests: Young Pianists International Contest – Košice, International competition – Beethoven’s Hradec award (CZ), Amadeus – Brno (CZ), Pro Bohemia – Ostrava (CZ)

  • 1993

    vice-chair of the committee of the International Tribune of Young Performers (UNESCO) in Bratislava

Stanislav Zamborský has appeared at various Slovak festivals (Bratislava Music Festival, Young Slovak Pianists Festival in Piešťany, Young Slovak Artists Festival in Trenčianske Teplice, Košice Spring Music Festival, Piešťany Festival, Summer Music festivals in Trenčianske Teplice and Bardejov), as well as during the Young Stage in Karlovy Vary and at the Flemish Festival in Antwerp. He has performed with all Slovak and some Czech ensembles (Gottwaldov Philharmonic, Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, Ostrava Philharmonic) led by conductors from Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Zdeněk Bílek, Ondrej Lenárd, Ľudovít Rajter, Róbert Stankovský, Bohdan Warchal, Richard Zimmer, Petr Altrichter, Stanislav Macura) and abroad (Miquel Graca Maur, Theodor Guschlbauer, Emin Khachaturian, Djura Jakšič, Ken Ichiro Kobayashi, Günter Neuhold, Petti Pekkannen etc.). Stanislav Zamborský has played chamber music with violinists Jela Špitková, Quido Hölbling, Viktor Šimčisko, Ivan Ženatý, cellist Richard Vandro, and four-hand piano music partners – Pavol Kováč and daughter Zuzana. He has given concerts in Europe (Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, ex-USSR, Italy, France, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland) and in Kuwait, Israel, Cuba and South Korea. He has released numerous recordings for the labels OPUS, Arietta, Donau, for Czechoslovak Radio and Czechoslovak Television, for Radio Suisse Romande.

“... the periods that match his character best are romanticism and contemporary music. They give full scope for his ideal: an impulsive, explosive possession of the music and emotional involvement in it. “It is alien to him to observe spiritless precision or keep a distance from the work,” Igor Podracký said of the young pianist in 1975. Vladimír Čížik commented as follows on his recital during the 1984 Bratislava Music Festival: “...delicate sound culture, natural tunefulness, as well as tension of lines, featuring strong imagination – all of these characterise Zamborský’s specific conception...” In 1992 this is how Igor Berger saw the mature artist performing Mozart: “ ...what typifies this conception is sonorousness and directness, and an effort to be rid of the petty tinkering with detail, ornament and phrase. Hence Zamborský subscribes to the sonorous, singing Mozart...”
(Vladimír Čížik: Dictionary of Slovak Concert Art Vol. I, Hudobné centrum, Bratislava 2002, p. 156-160.)

 

 

 

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