• 1955 – 1961

    State Conservatory in Bratislava (accordion, piano)

  • 1957 – 1958

    amateur jazz playing in the Reduta café and at youth events in the Tatra revue

  • 1959 – 196

    founder of the West Coast Combo

  • 1961 – 1963

    founder of mainstream Bratislava Jazz Studio; 1st place at the Young Creation Contest (1961, 1962)

  • 1961 – 1969

    Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava (conducting, composition) (Alexander Moyzes)

  • 1964 – 1981

    founder of the Braňo Hronec Sextet (later renamed Orchestra), touring successfully Europe, Central Asia and Cuba; the Bratislava Lyre festival (1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975)

  • 1966

    Jazz Festival Praha (CZ) (as the first Hammond player in Czechoslovakia)

  • 1985 – 1990

    conductor of the Czechoslovak Television Dance Orchestra

  • 1990 – 1997

    composition educator at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava

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