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2002 – 2007
Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava (Department of Musicology)
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2006
Private composition lessons (Ilja Zeljenka)
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2008 – 2014
Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composition – Jevgenij Iršai, Vladimír Godár)
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2015–2019
HAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – doctoral studies (composition and composition theory – Michal Rataj)
His work includes numerous pieces for string quartet, including The Quartet of Tentacles Reaching Out, which was performed by the Kronos Quartet in 2018. He has also composed Bliky for orchestra and reciter, The Theory of Absolute Sadness for soprano and orchestra, the cabaret suite BallOnAir, the ten-part Requiem for a Mafioso for a cappella choir and countertenor, a chamber piano concerto, works for chamber ensemble, several electroacoustic compositions, and compositions for smaller ensembles and soloists. He is also the author of several operas and musical theater projects.
He is the winner of four Radio Head Awards in the experimental music category for the song "Kyberpunkomša" (2018) and the albums "S'ihmon" and "+" with the band Shibuya Motors (2020) and for the string quartet with electronics "Nemiesta" (2024).
Since 2006, he has founded and played in bands such as Drť, Dystopic Requiem Quartet, Srnka, Predskokan Otrok, Shibuya Motors, and Funeral Marching Band. In 2024, he won the Dominik Tatarka Award for the album Kruh & špirála with the band Drť.
In 2006, he founded the improvisational orchestra Frutti di Mare (a variable ensemble with more than 60 performers in eleven different conceptual projects). In the same year, he created the improvisational ensemble Musica Falsa et Ficta, with which he recorded Martin Burlas' CD Hexenprozesse in 2015, in addition to performing numerous concerts.
As a saxophonist, he focuses on freely improvised music or music that overlaps with graphic scores or open works. He has performed contemporary compositions at festivals such as Prague Spring (2017) and played compositions by Jan Trojan as a soloist with the Prague Chamber Philharmonic (2017, 2018). He has composed music for dozens of radio plays and films. He regularly collaborates with radio directors such as Aleš Vrzák and Bela Schneková, and film directors Ivan Ostrochovský, Viera Čakányová, and Róbert Kirchhoff. He has participated in film festivals in Cannes and Berlin with the films OUT (2017), Služobníci (2019), and FREM (2019).