• 1945

    leader of amateur group in Myjava (SK)

  • 1946 – 1951

    Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava

  • since 1951

    member of swing orchestra Kolektív 51

  • 1952

    leader of the Orchestra of Ján Siváček, regular performing in Reduta Café (Bratislava)

  • 1953 – 1956

    leader of popular music department (Music and Artistic Central Office in Bratislava)

  • 1959 – 1965

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (external study of composition, Alexander Moyzes)

  • 1964 – 1969

    secretary of Committee For Small Music Forms of Association of Slovak Composers

  • 1966 – 1970

    founder (and director) of the pop music festival Bratislava Lyre

  • 1966 – 1973

    various awards at festivals and competitions for his songs (Pieseň Majstra Pavla (Song Of Master Paul); Orfeus a Eurydika; Milenci z Verony (Lovers From Verona); Múdry pán Andersen (Wise Man Andersen) and others)

  • 1968 – 1970

    vice-president of FIDOF (International Federation of Festival Organizations)

  • 1971 – 1972

    deputy director of OPUS publisher

  • since 1972

    freelance artist

  • 1983 – 1987

    external pedagogue of jazz history, rock and pop music at the Faculty of Music and Dance (department of composing and conducting) at Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava

  • since 1984

    pedagogue at the Theatre Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (department of film and television production)

  • 1985 – 1987

    pedagogue at Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava (department of musicology)

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