Markéta Štefková

Prof. Markéta Štefková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist, university professor, music editor, journalist, and arts manager. She studied piano at the Conservatory in Žilina and music theory at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (VŠMU) in Bratislava, where she also completed her doctoral studies and was later appointed associate professor and full professor. Her main areas of interest include analytical-aesthetic and interpretative aspects of music.

She has been active at the Music and Dance Faculty of VŠMU since 2003, holding various (including leadership) positions. She teaches courses in music theory and aesthetics, theory and history of musical interpretation, and music dramaturgy. She co-founded the journal Tempo, and since 2020 has been the primary coordinator of the university study program Theory of Theatre, Film, and Music at both master's and doctoral levels. She currently serves as Vice-Rector for Research and Scientific Activities. In 2015, she organized the international artistic-scientific project Grieg Day at VŠMU, funded by EEA and Norway Grants.

She has been the principal investigator for several national and international research projects and grants and actively fosters international scholarly collaboration. As part of lecture series and international scientific events, she has presented at music academies and universities in Oxford, Zurich, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Bergen, Copenhagen, Budapest, Katowice, Porto, Hanover, Bern, Eisenstadt, and at various institutions in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

She is a member of the Musicology Board of the Slovak Music Fund and a board member of the Slovak Musicological Association. Since 2009, Štefková has been a member of the International Grieg Society, serving on its Executive Committee since 2013. Thanks to these connections, she was able to complete an EU Erasmus study stay at the Grieg Academy (University of Bergen, Norway) in 2010. Since 2016, she has also been a member of the scientific editorial board of the German music encyclopedia MGG Online (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bärenreiter Verlag) as the advisor for Slovakia, and since 2024 a member of the editorial board of the scholarly journal Musicologica Olomucensia. She has also served on the editorial board of Musicologica Slovaca.

Markéta Štefková is the author of several monographs, entries on Czech and Slovak composers in the prestigious Reclam's Komponistenlexikon (Stuttgart 2009), and dozens of scholarly studies published in Slovak, German, Swiss, Austrian, Czech, and Norwegian academic journals. For a time, she also worked as an independent researcher at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

She organized international interpretation courses in Piešťany, the J. N. Hummel International Piano Competition, and worked as a manager at the Slovkoncert arts agency. She also served as artistic director of the J. N. Hummel Chamber Music Festival in Bratislava. As a dramaturge, she worked for the Slovak Philharmonic, where she prepared chamber concerts for the Philharmonic and the Bratislava Music Festival. She has created several spoken-word concert concepts, which she has presented both in Slovakia and abroad.

In 2008, she organized the international musicological conference In the Footsteps of J. N. Hummel in Bratislava; in 2009, a discussion roundtable at VŠMU marking the 90th anniversary of the birth of Ján Albrecht; in 2010, the interactive project Homage to FCH at the Music and Dance Faculty of VŠMU; as well as other international musicological conferences—such as Franz Liszt and His Place in European Musical Culture (2011) and Conceptions of Musical Thinking in 20th Century European Musicology (2013, in Bratislava).