Xénia Jarová

She is active both as a soloist and a chamber musician, and has performed at festivals and concerts in Slovakia and abroad (including the UK, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, and others). She regularly collaborates with her husband, double bassist Filip Jaro, as part of the chamber ensemble Sperger Duo, with whom she gives numerous concert performances each year. As a chamber musician, she also performs with mezzo-soprano Denisa Šlepkovská and members of the Mucha Quartet.

Currently, as an internal doctoral student at the Department of Keyboard Instruments at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU), she is working on a dissertation about Robert Schumann and curating a concert series entitled Chamber Schumann, focused on presenting his complete piano chamber works.

She is a member of the civic association Albrechtina, which is dedicated to discovering and performing unknown Slovak and international music. She also teaches at the Július Kowalský Elementary School of the Arts in Bratislava.