PaeDr. Mgr. Silvia Fecsková is a Slovak musicologist, art historian, music critic and publicist, music dramaturge, editor and also devoted to music management. She studied musicology at the Faculty of Arts Comenius University in Bratislava and also privately studied conducting, organ playing and Gregorian chant with professors Jaroslav Malina and Miroslav Venhoda in Prague. She later expanded her studies to include liturgical music theory at the Faculty of Theology of the Aloisianum in Bratislava.
She worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Music Education at the Faculty of Education of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Prešov, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Performing Arts and at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Prešov. Since 2001 he has been working at the primary school with kindergarten in the village of Gaboltov and also teaches music privately.
One of Sylvia Fecskova's key domains is her extensive journalistic, musicological and editorial activity, mainly (but not exclusively) focused on regional musical culture and its history, artistic personalities and concert life connected with the town of Bardejov. Due to the ban on publishing, her articles were published during the period of the former regime under various coding: -sf-, -SF-, -sivá-, -SIVÁ-, -les-, LES-, and many without the author's designation.
An important part of her career is music-dramaturgical, organizational and lecturing activities. Her name is associated with the dramaturgy of more than 270 classical music concerts, educational or spiritual concerts and events such as the Bardejov Music Spring, Jozef Grešák's Musical Autumn in Bardejov, the City Festival of St. Cyril and Methodius in Bardejov (1990-1994), and others.
She was also a choirmaster - as a regenshori in the Roman Catholic parish in Bardejov (1975 - 1987), later she led the Roman Catholic parish choir in Svidník (1990 - 1991) and the Evangelical mixed choir of Zacharias Zarewutia in Bardejov (1993 - 2015), with which she performed more than 180 compositions.
For her contribution to the cultural development of the town, she was awarded the Prize of the Mayor of Bardejov (2018).