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1982 – 1986
UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava (musicology), thesis: Musical Composition in Slovakia in the 17th Century, 1986 title of PhDr.
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1986 – 1995
staff scholar at the Musical Museum at the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava
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1995 – 1999
external postgraduate doctoral study at the UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava and SAV Institute of Musicology
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1995 – 2002
director of the Musical Museum at the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava
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2000
degree of PhD., dissertation: The Repertoire of Polyphonic Music in Slovakia in the 16th-17th centuries
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from 2003
pedagogue at the Department of Musicology in the UK Philosophical Faculty in Bratislava
Doc. PhDr. Jana Kalinayová-Bartová, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist and university teacher and worker in the field of music museology. After graduating in musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, she worked at the Slovak National Museum - Music Museum, first as a professional worker - curator of historical music collections, and in 1995 - 2002 she headed the museum as its director. In 1999, she defended her dissertation thesis on the Repertoire of Loud Music in Slovakia in the 16th and 17th centuries at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and was awarded the PhD degree. Since 2003 she has been working at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2011 she habilitated at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University with her monograph Music in Medieval Fine Arts in Slovakia (Bratislava: SNM, 2011).
In her scholarly career she has focused on Slovak and European history of music of the older historic periods, especially the medieval period, and on musical iconography, historical organology and musical museology.
She completed a two-month study stay in Japan with the theme The System of Musical Documentation and Presentation in Japanese Museums (1994) and a one-month study stay in Austria with the theme Musical Contacts Between Vienna and Bratislava in the 17th Century (2003).
She is a member of several editorial and scientific advisory bodies (e.g. the editorial board of the source-critical edition Musicalia Istropolitana, the Scientific Council of the Slovak National Museum, the Constitutional Council of the SNM - Music Museum). She participates in or leads research teams in several research projects focused on the study of the musical culture of the early modern period. She is a member of the committee of the international project TRA.D.I.MUS (Tracking the Dissemination of Italian Music in Europe in the 16th and 17th Century).
In 2020, Jana Kalinayová-Bartová, as editor, published the most comprehensive publication on the musical history of our capital city to date, Hudobné dejiny Bratislavy. Od stredoveku po rok 1918 (Musical History of Bratislava. From the Middle Ages to 1918).