Prof. PhDr. Eva Ferková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, pedagogue and organizer of cultural life. In her scientific and research activity she focuses on music theory with a specialization on the problems of musical analysis, with interdisciplinary overlap into other scientific disciplines such as ethnomusicology and music historiography.
She is a member of the Slovak Musicological Association and a member of the Study Group on Computer Aided Research within the International Council for Traditional Music of UNESCO. She also collaborates with the Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications of the International Musicological Society. In Slovakia, she has long collaborated and cooperated with several programmers on the creation of computer software (Mgr. Milan Ždímal - work on Analysis software, Mgr. Michal Šukol - Harmanal software, doc. Peter Šidlík). With P. Šidlík they are trying to obtain data usable as results of style analyses of harmony.
She has participated in several major international conferences on progressive methods in music analysis (Belfast, Vienna, Zeilern, České Budejovice, Trent, Warsaw, Berlin, Thessaloniki...) and was invited to international musicological conferences in Kassel (2002) and Zurich (2007). She lectured at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst (2003, 2005) and Karl-Franzens-Universität (2009) in Graz, in 2011 at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and also at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Nitra, at the Academy of Performing Arts in Banská Bystrica (2002-2008), and at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Banská Bystrica (2002-2008), and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She has published dozens of articles and musicological studies at home and abroad and has been a co-investigator on several grant projects.
She created several scripts for music programmes, such as Music and Computer, a music and words programme for Rádiomaják, Slovak Radio (1983). As an author and host, she participated in about 300 educational concerts organised by Slovkoncert (Wind Instruments in Harmony, 1984; History of Two Old Instruments, 1984) and was also involved in the artistic programmes of SĽUK and the Bralen Dance Theatre.
From 2009 to 2021 she was the head of the Department of Music Theory at the Academy of Performing Arts and in 2014 she defended her title of university professor.