Fero Király is an artist and educator. He engages in artistic projects that intersect with performance, sound art, and sound installations, the interpretation of contemporary music, the development of his own audiovisual instruments, as well as educational projects in the fields of music, multimedia, and creative programming. He explores new experimental and boundary-pushing approaches, creates his own digital tools, and enjoys collaborating on projects with other artists with interdisciplinary focus. Together with Eva Vozárová, he runs the civic association ooo, which serves as the main platform for these activities. Among its initiatives, the standout project is JAMA, an international intermedia event they have been organizing since 2019.
Fero Király is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, where he studied piano performance. He works as a freelance artist and teaches the subject SOUND at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava in the Department of Intermedia. As a part-time lecturer, he has taught at Comenius University in Bratislava (at the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education) and at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica (Faculty of Music – Department of Composition and Conducting). He also earned his PhD at the Faculty of Education of Comenius University, with a dissertation titled New Media in Artistic Education at Elementary Schools.
As a musical performer, he has exclusively focused on interpreting works from the 20th and 21st centuries, with detailed mapping of the early works of minimalist music by Philip Glass—many of which he premiered in Slovakia, performing in venues ranging from clubs to the two largest cathedrals (in Košice and Bratislava), as well as at festivals. Thanks to this, one of his best-known projects is Cluster ensemble (with Ivo Šiller and Zuzana Biščáková), which received several awards and international critical acclaim – The Guardian and Pitchfork among them – for their album Cluster ensemble plays Philip Glass.
In the field of education, he is the author of the audiovisual musical instrument Zvukodrom, designed for children and music/music education teachers, as well as the collection Botanical Garden, which features graphic scores, compositions, and sound/music games for children. The collection has recently become established in Slovak elementary art schools and is now a recognized part of children's music education.
Fero Király has participated in several artist residencies (Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Druskininkai, Ljubljana, Poznań) and has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Matej, Karolina Kubik, Milan Adamčiak, Michal Murin, Maja Osojnik, Anat Ben David, Peter Machajdík, Juraj Bartusz, Zbyněk Prokop, Juraj Vajó, Jakub Pišek, Petra Fornayová, Peter Mazalán, Eva Šušková, Martin Derner, Bohuš and Monika Kubínski, and many others. In addition to Slovakia, he has performed in cities such as New York, San Francisco, London, Prague, Berlin, Passau, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, Trebišov, and more. He regularly performs in various venues throughout Slovakia. In 2013, at a special concert of the ISCM World New Music Days festival (at St. Elizabeth’s Cathedral in Košice), he performed a solo concert of works by Philip Glass.