• 1945 – 1952

    Bratislava Conservatory, studying the trumpet

  • 1947

    founded the Bratislava University Students’ Dance Orchestra, in which he was involved until 1949

  • 1950 – 1957

    reporter for Czechoslovak Radio

  • 1953

    founder and conductor of the radio string orchestra

  • 1957

    played jazz in Tatra revue (in a trio with J. Berczeller and F. Havlíček)

  • 1959

    member of various amateur jazz groups

  • 1962 – 1963

    member of Braňo Hronec’s group, Bratislava Studio

  • 1964

    member of a quartet (Milan Belan – trumpet, Ladislav Gerhardt – piano, Gustáv Riška – bass guitar, Pavel Polanský – drums, leader)

  • 1963 – 1964

    guested for Karol Velebný’s SHQ

  • 1965

    music for the film Artisti (with his quartet)

  • 1965

    engagements abroad

  • 1968

    began living in Vienna, where he became a writer and editor for the Ö3 radio station

  • from 1991

    member of the jury at the Slovak Jazz Festival in Žilina, he was an editor and presenter for Radio Twist in Slovakia, for which he compiled the programme Pekná hudba (Nice Music)

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