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  • 1972 – 1976

    private studies of organ in Budapest (István Baróti)

  • 1976 – 1978

    Conservatory in Bratislava, organ (Irma Skuhrová)

  • 1978 – 1982

    Academy of Performing Arts, organ (Ferdinand Klinda)

  • 1982 – 1984

    recipient of a Slovak Music Fund scholarship (Ivan Sokol)

  • -

    performers’ master classes (e.g. Jiří Reinberger)

  • 2002

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, completion of PhD. studies 

  • 1989 – 1991

    soloist of the Slovak Sinfonietta Žilina

  • since 1985

    organ maintenance in the concert studio of the Slovak Radio in Bratislava

  • 1988

    co-author of an extended organ disposition in the Roman-Catholic church Blumenthal in Bratislava (with Marián Mayer)

  • since 1988

    Conservatory in Bratislava, organ lecturer 

  • since 1995

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, organ lecturer (2004 - associate Prof.)

Imrich Szabó cooperated with Slovak and Czech orchestras (Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra, Košice State Philharmonic, Janáček Philh Ostrava, Gottwaldov State Symphony Orchestra) led by Slovak and foreign conductors (Ondrej Lenárd, Ľudovít Rajter, Bystrík Režucha, Róbert Stankovský; Tomáš Koutník, Otakar Trhlík, Jan Valta; Stephan Gunzenhauser). Cooperation in chamber music: Peter Michalica – vn, violin duo Quido and Anna Hölbling, Marián Banda – vl, Jozef Podhoranský – vc, vocalists Peter Dvorský, Ján Galla, Edita Grúberová, Hana Štolfová-Bandová and four-hand organ music with Emília Dzemjanová.

 

"Szabó’s highly professional performance is backed by his solid technical background, meticulous facture, well-defined stylistic feeling, ever-present imagination, a certain distance and especially by his intensive and evocative musicianship. He is able to judge the acoustic qualities of a specific concert space, colour-related possibilities of an instrument, and to build his performance on the basis of these characteristics. He ranks among prominent representatives of the middle generation of Slovak organists and is a reliable organiser (since 1990, he presides over the Ferenc Liszt Club in Bratislava)."
(Vladimír Čížik: Dictionary of Slovak Concert Art vol. I)

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