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1976 – 1981
studied Music Art, Music Theory, and Criticism at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava
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1981 – 1991
researcher at the Institute of Art Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, later at the Institute of Musicology SAS (1991 – 1992)
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1981 – 1989
member of the National Working Group RILM (international database of musicological literature, based in New York)
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1983
awarded the degree PhDr. in History and Theory of Art at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava
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1985 – 2008
participant in Mathematics and Music seminars with international participation; 2002, 2003, 2005 actively participated in the seminar KTH HTF VŠMU Presentations – Confrontations with contributions to the theory and history of music analysis
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1988
awarded the CSc./PhD. at the Institute of Musicology SAS; candidate dissertation titled Niektoré možnosti využitia výpočtovej techniky v analýze melódie a harmónie (Some Possibilities for the Use of Computational Techniques in the Analysis of Melody and Harmony)
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1992 – 2008
teacher at the Conservatory in Bratislava (music-theoretical subjects)
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1995 – 2002
external lecturer at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (Teaching Practice)
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since 2000
external, later internal lecturer at the Department of Music Theory, Music and Dance Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava; 2009 – 2021 head of the department
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2009
awarded the title doc., in the field of Music Art at the Music and Dance Faculty, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava; 2014 awarded the title full professor
Prof. PhDr. Eva Ferková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, educator, and cultural organizer. Her research focuses on music theory, particularly musical analysis, with interdisciplinary connections to ethnomusicology and music historiography.
She is a member of the Slovak Musicological Association, the Study Group on Computer-Aided Research within the International Council for Traditional Music (UNESCO), and collaborates with the Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications of the International Musicological Society.
She has long collaborated with programmers on the development of computer software for music research, including Mgr. Marián Dudek (CACH, later Asound for MS DOS), Mgr. Milan Ždímal (Analysis), Mgr. Michal Šukol (Harmanal), and doc. Peter Šidlík, with whom she focuses on obtaining data suitable for harmonic style analysis.
E. Ferková regularly participates in international conferences on progressive methods in music analysis, including events in Belfast, Vienna, Zeilern, České Budějovice, Trent, Warsaw, Berlin, and Thessaloniki. She was also invited to musicological conferences in Kassel (2002) and Zürich (2007).
She has lectured at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (2003, 2005, 2011), at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz (2009), and at several Slovak universities, including UKF in Nitra and AMU in Banská Bystrica (2002 – 2008).
She has published dozens of articles and musicological studies both in Slovakia and abroad and has been a co-investigator in several research grant projects.
As an author and dramaturge, she created several scenarios for music programs, such as the music-and-speech broadcast Music and Computer for Rádiomaják (Slovak Radio, 1983). As a presenter, she participated in approximately 300 educational concerts organized by Slovkoncert between 1981 and 2000 (Dychové nástroje v súhre – Wind Instruments in Ensemble, 1984; História dvoch starých nástrojov – History of Two Old Instruments, 1984). She has been involved in artistic programs of SĽUK, the Bralen Dance Theatre, and the German ensemble SLA from Bautzen, often in collaboration with SĽUK.
From 2009 to 2021, she was head of the Department of Music Theory at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (HTF VŠMU), and in 2014 she was awarded the title of full professor.