-
1976 – 1981
studied Music Performance, Music Theory, and Criticism at the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava
-
1981 – 1991
worked at the Institute of Art Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, later the Institute of Musicology SAS (1991 – 1992), as a specialist, internal PhD candidate, assistant researcher, and later research fellow
-
1981 – 1989
member of the National Working Group RILM (international database of musicological literature, based in New York)
-
1981 – 2000
performed as presenter for educational concerts organized by Slovkoncert – approx. 300 concerts and artistic programs for SĽUK and Dance Theatre Bralen; collaborated with German art ensemble SLA from Bautzen, in cooperation with SĽUK
-
1983
earned the PhDr. degree in the field of History and Theory of Art at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava
-
1983
awarded Best Female Acting Performance at amateur theatre competition at Pegasník Theatre
-
1985 – 2008
participated in “Mathematics and Music” seminars with foreign guests; in 2002, 2003, 2005 actively took part in HTF VŠMU seminar “Presentations – Confrontations” with contributions to music-theory and analysis
-
from 1986
member of SMA (Slovak Musicological Association)
-
1988
awarded CSc./PhD. degree from the Institute of Musicology SAS, candidate dissertation titled Some Possibilities of Using Computing Technology in the Analysis of Melody and Harmony
-
1988 – 1996
collaborated with programmer Mgr. Marián Dudek on original classical harmony analysis software CACH, later Asound for MS‑DOS environment
-
1992 – 2008
taught music theory at the Conservatory in Bratislava
-
1993 – 1999
external lecturer at the Department of Music Theory, HTF VŠMU, Bratislava
-
1993 – 2001
co-investigator on several grant projects led by Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Martináková, CSc., focusing on methods of music analysis and interpretation
-
from 1993
member of the Study Group on Computer-Aided Research in Musicology (ICTM UNESCO)
-
1995 – 2002
external lecturer at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava (Pedagogical Practice)
-
from 2000
lecturer at the Department of Music Theory, HTF VŠMU; led musicological and theoretical-analytical projects (Digitalisation of Music Education, Musical Thinking and Style); since 2009 head of the Department of Music Theory at HTF VŠMU
-
from 2002
collaborated with programmer Mgr. Milan Ždímal on a new Windows‑based version of classical harmony analysis software with automated MIDI input
-
from 2005
collaborated with Assoc. Prof. Peter Šidlík on statistical style analysis
-
2007
attended the Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications meeting in Zurich
-
2009
awarded the title Associate Professor (doc.) in Music Performance at HTF VŠMU, Bratislava
-
2010 – 2012
participated in Austrian–Slovak grant project Accentus Musicalis under the cross-border cooperation Creating the Future, focused on 15th–18th century regional music research
-
from 2012
Associate Professor at the Music and Dance Faculty, HTF VŠMU, Bratislava; awarded full professorship in 2014
Prof. PhDr. Eva Ferková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, educator, and cultural organizer. In her scholarly research, she focuses on music theory, particularly issues of music analysis, with interdisciplinary overlaps into other fields such as ethnomusicology and music historiography.
She is a member of the Slovak Musicological Association and the Study Group on Computer-Aided Research within the International Council for Traditional Music (UNESCO). She also collaborates with the Study Group on Musical Data and Computer Applications under the International Musicological Society. In Slovakia, she has worked closely with several programmers on the development of music analysis software (e.g. Mgr. Milan Ždímal – Analysis software; Mgr. Michal Šukol – Harmanal software; Assoc. Prof. Peter Šidlík). Together with Šidlík, she focuses on obtaining data usable in harmonic style analysis.
She has participated in numerous international conferences on progressive methods in music analysis (in Belfast, Vienna, Zeillern, České Budějovice, Trento, Warsaw, Berlin, Thessaloniki, among others), and was invited to speak at major musicological conferences in Kassel (2002) and Zurich (2007). She has lectured at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst and Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz (2003, 2005, 2009), the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2011), as well as at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica (2002–2008), and elsewhere. She has published dozens of scholarly articles and musicological studies in Slovakia and abroad, and has co-investigated several grant-funded projects.
She created several educational music programs, such as Music and the Computer, a feature for Slovak Radio’s Rádiomaják (1983). As both author and presenter, she participated in around 300 educational concerts organized by Slovkoncert (Wind Instruments in Harmony, 1984; The History of Two Ancient Instruments, 1984), and was also involved in the artistic programming of SĽUK and the Bralen Dance Theatre.
From 2009 to 2021, she served as Head of the Department of Music Theory at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, and in 2014, she was awarded the title of Full Professor.