Jana Kalinayová-Bartová

Assoc. Prof. PhDr. Jana Kalinayová-Bartová, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, university lecturer, and music museum specialist. After graduating in musicology from the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, she worked at the Slovak National Museum – Music Museum (Slovenské národné múzeum – Hudobné múzeum), first as a specialist curator of historical music collections and, from 1995 to 2002, as the museum’s director. In 1999, she defended her dissertation at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Ústav hudobnej vedy SAV), focusing on the topic Repertoár viachlasnej hudby na Slovensku v 16. a 17. storočí (The Repertoire of Polyphonic Music in Slovakia in the 16th and 17th Centuries). Since 2003, she has been a faculty member at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava. In 2011, she completed her habilitation at the same faculty with the monograph Hudba v stredovekom výtvarnom umení na Slovensku (Music in Medieval Visual Art in Slovakia, 2011).

Her scholarly research specializes in the historiography of early European and Slovak music history, organology, music iconography, and music museology. She regularly presents her research results in academic journals, professional periodicals, edited volumes, and monographs, as well as at national and international conferences and guest lectures (for example in Venice, Budapest, Bydgoszcz, Kraków, Warsaw, Prague, Brno, Olomouc, and Kutná Hora). She has completed several international research and study residencies, including in Japan (1994), Austria (2000), the United States (2004), and Romania (2007). She also participated in a one-month study residency in Austria focused on her study titled Hudobné kontakty medzi Viedňou a Bratislavou v 17. storočí (Musical Contacts between Vienna and Bratislava in the 17th Century).

She is a member of various editorial and academic advisory boards, including the editorial board of the source-critical edition Hudba v stredovekom výtvarnom umení na Slovensku, the Scientific Council of the Slovak National Museum, and the Institutional Board of the Slovak National Museum – Music Museum. She participates in or leads research teams on several scholarly projects focused on early modern music culture. She is also a member of the committee for the international research project TRA.D.I.MUS (Tracking the Dissemination of Italian Music in Europe in the 16th and 17th Century).

In 2020, Jana Kalinayová-Bartová edited the most comprehensive publication to date on the musical history of Slovakia’s capital, Hudobné dejiny Bratislavy. Od stredoveku po rok 1918 (Musical History of Bratislava: From the Middle Ages to 1918). As a researcher long dedicated to this topic, she authored several expert chapters and wrote the extensive introductory study, in which she offered a precise and in-depth synthesis of the subject matter.