• 1970 – 1974

    Bratislava Conservatory (violin – Viliam Kořínek, composition – Andrej Očenáš, conducting – Kornel Schimpl, Gerhard Auer)

  • 1974 – 1979

    Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (conducting – Václav Neumann, Josef Veselka, Alois Klíma, Bohumír Liška etc.)

  • 1974 – 1979

    artistic director of the University Artistic Ensemble at Charles University in Prague

  • 1975

    master course (Igor Markevitch)

  • 1976

    master course (Franco Ferrara) and others

  • from 1977

    continuously conductor of the Prague Chamber Ensemble Canticorum iubilo

  • 1979 – 1980

    Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna (conducting – Otmar Suitner)

  • 1979 – 1986

    conductor of Czeechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava

  • from 1984

    conductor and 1986 – 1991 conductor-in-chief of the Slovak National Theatre Opera

  • 1985 – 1991

    conductor of Slovak Philharmonic

  • 1993 – 1996 and 2004 – 2007

    conductor-in-chief of the National Theatre Opera in Prague

  • from 1994

    permanent guest conductor at Opera North and Northern Philharmonic, Leeds

  • 2000 – 2003

    permanent guest conductor at Yomiuri Nippon Symphonic Orchestra, Tokyo

  • from 2000

    permanent guest conductor at the English National Opera in London

  • 2001 – 2004

    permanent guest conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich

  • 2004 – 2007

    conductor-in-chief of the State Chamber Orchestra, Žilina

  • 2006 – 2007

    conductor-in-chief of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava

  • 2006

    leader of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Opera in Ostrava

  • 2007/2008

    director of the Slovak National Theatre Opera

  • 2010

    director of the State Opera, Prague

  • 2011

    conductor-in-chief of the State Chamber Orchestra, Žilina

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