Zuzana Martináková

Prof. PhDr. Zuzana Martináková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, university professor, music publicist, editor, and cultural organizer. She studied piano at the Conservatory in Bratislava and later music theory and criticism at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). She completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Art Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Musicology), where she also worked for several years as a senior research fellow. Alongside her academic research, she is primarily involved in teaching.

In her research, Zuzana Martináková focuses on contemporary Slovak and global music, modal music of the Renaissance period, the 20th century, and non-European cultures, quantitative methods of music analysis, systems theory, synergetics, and the application of mathematical methods in music.

Since 1990, she has systematically developed collaborations with several international institutions of higher artistic education, including the Hochschule (now Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst) in Vienna. She has cooperated with experts in synergetic linguistics at the universities of Bochum and Trier in Germany, the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris, Lyon, Parma, and institutions in Spain and Portugal. She has undertaken study and lecture stays in Germany, England, Ireland, Austria, France, Italy, Poland, Russia, Hungary, New Zealand, the Czech Republic, and elsewhere.

She is a co-author of the lexicon Komponisten der Gegenwart, published since 1992 by the text+kritik publishing house in Munich. Since 1997, she has collaborated with The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Her articles and studies are published both in Slovakia and internationally, and she regularly participates in academic conferences and symposia.

Zuzana Martináková is a member of the Humboldt Club and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's scholarly society, part of the scientific team at the Universities of Bochum and Trier, an expert with the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation in Florence, and a member of the International Scientific Committee of WSES (World Scientific and Engineering Society), among others. Since 1991, she has regularly organized international artistic and scientific events (seminars, conferences, symposia, courses, workshops) focused on the interconnection of various art forms.

In 2008, she founded HUAJA – BŠ, s.r.o., with the aim of establishing a private university, the Ján Albrecht Music and Art Academy in Banská Štiavnica. Since January 2011, the institution has received official state accreditation, and Zuzana Martináková has served as the guarantor of the study program Music Interpretation and Theory, teaching theoretical courses. At HUAJA, she established and leads the Center for Development and Research in the Field of Art and Science.

In 2019, she was awarded the Jozef Kresánek Prize by the Slovak Music Fund.