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1996 – 2001
Žilina Conservatory (Darina Švárna)
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2001
beggining of studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (piano – Marián Lapšanský)
During his studies, Matej Arendárik was a member of the Piano Trio of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. His solo debut with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra took place in 1998. Since then, he has performed in prominent concert halls (Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Stadthalle Bayreuth, Forbidden City Concert Hall Beijing, Southbank Centre London, Palacio de Congresos Zaragoza, Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall Prague, Besední dům Brno, and many others) and at major music festivals (Beethovenfest Saint Etienne, Prague Spring, New Masters on Tour Netherlands, World of Jewish Music London, Central European Festival of Concert Art Žilina, Afyon Classical Music Festival Turkey, St. Wenceslas Music Festival, Bratislava Music Festival, and others).
Matej Arendárik collaborates with leading Slovak and Czech orchestras such as the Slovak Philharmonic, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Pilsen Philharmonic, the State Philharmonic Brno, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Bohdan Warchal Slovak Chamber Orchestra, the Žilina Chamber Orchestra, and others under the baton of conductors like Andres Orozco Estrada, Jose Ferreira Lobo, Leoš Svárovský, Petr Vronský, Oliver Dohnányi, Rastislav Štúr, Theodore Kuchar, Mario Košík, Petr Altrichter, and others. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Talich Quartet and the Suchoň Quintet. He has made recordings for Slovak and Czech radio and has also worked with Slovak and Czech television.
In his concert during the Bratislava Music Festival in 2014, he presented works by Ilja Zeljenka, Karol Szymanowski, Sergei Prokofiev, and Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Currently, he regularly performs in Slovakia in solo concerts as well as in chamber music performances.
He has attended master classes under the guidance of such personalities as Mikhail Voskresensky, Robert Roux, Piotr Paleczny, Eugen Indjic, Marián Lapšanský, Diane Andersen, Boris Berman, Peter Eicher, Eugene Pridonoff, and others.
He is a teacher and accompanist at the Faculty of Performing Arts at the Academy of Arts and at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica.