• 1985 – 1991

    Bratislava Conservatory (conducting – Zdeněk Bílek, Adolf Vykydal, composition – Juraj Pospíšil), title of Best Graduate of the Year

  • 1991 – 1996

    Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava (conducting – Ladislav Slovák, Bystrík Režucha)

  • 1991 – 1997

    Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst vo Viedni (orchestral conducting – Karl Österreicher, Leopold Hager, choir conducting – Günther Theuring)

  • 1991

    master course and I. Stravinsky International Competition, Mürzzuschlag (exceptional stipend)

  • 1992

    Weber-Webern conductors’ course, Austria (Ernst Smole)

  • 1992

    The Masterplayers master course, Amsterdam-Lugano (Richard Schumacher)

  • 1993

    Mozart-Strawinsky course, Mürzzuschlag (Detlef Heusinger)

  • 1994

    4thplace in the 1st International Austro-Hungarian Conductors’ Course and Competition, Pécs (Wolfgang Harrer)

  • 1997

    conductors’ course, Szeged (Ervin Acél)

  • from 1997

    teacher at Bratislava Conservatory (conducting, basic instruction on music, instruction on musical instruments, instruction on harmony, instruction on musical forms, musico-theoretical analysis of compositions, auditory analysis)

  • 2011 – 2014

    Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, doctoral study in theory of music (Eva Ferková)

Activities as conductor or artistic director: Tempus Academic Choir (1992 – 1994), Technik Choir (1994 – 2007), Bratislava Conservatory Opera Ensemble (1998 – 2007), Cantus Choir (from 1999 collaboration, from 2007 artistic director), Bratislava Conservatory Baroque Chamber Orchestra (2005 – 2008), Bratislava Conservatory Symphony Orchestra (1990, from 2012 artistic director).

Collaboration with ensembles: Bratislava Conservatory Mixed Choir (1989, 1990, 2012), Mürztaler Kammerensemble (1991, 1992), State Philharmonic, Košice (1992, 1994), Savaria orchestra Szombathely (1992, 1993), Pro Arte Orchester Wien (1993, 1995), Symphony Orchestra Pécz (1994), Bratislava Chamber Opera Orchestra (1994, 1995), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (1996), Radio Symphonieorchester Wien (1997), Symphony Orchestra Szeged (1997), Trnava Chamber Orchestra (2004, 2005, 2008, 2010), Neues Zürcher Orchester (2007).

Also active as an award-winning  composer, focusing specifically (in accordance with his many years’ activity in the field of choral singing) on vocal and choral work.

x