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1972 – 1976
New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts
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1970 – 1980
playing in blues and funky bands with artists such as B. B. King, Maynard Fergusion, Kool and the Gang band etc.
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1986 – 1989
University of Massachusetts, Boston, private lessons with Carl Swift
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1986 – 1993
member of the Metro Jazz Ensemble Boston, widely touring USA, Canada, Poland, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic etc.
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1990 – 1999
teacher of jazz improvisation, saxophone and jazz history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
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1996 – 1999
teacher at the North Shore Community College, Boston and Chopin Conservatory, Boston
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1994
founded the Peter Cardarelli Quartet (Peter Cardarelli – tenor saxophone, Ondrej Krajňák – piano, Jozef Brisuda – double bass, Jozef Döme – drums), with whom he appeared at numerous festivals : Jazz Prešov (1998, 1999, 2000), Bratislava Jazz Days (2000), Jazz Under the Castle – Trenčín (2001), Jazz & Blues Fest Levice (2000), Košice jazz fest, festivals abroad: Bologna Jazz Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest, All American College Jazz Fest, Boston Jazz etc.
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1998
cooperating with Igor Bázlik writing the jazz cantata The Wail of Jeremiah (music: I. Bázlik, text: M. Rúfus, based on the Bible)
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currently lives in Slovakia, cooperating with prominent Slovak jazz musicians