Ľubomír Čížek

Ľubomír Čížek studied musicology at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he also worked as an assistant professor of Eugen Suchoň. In the 1950s he was an editor of the broadcasting of Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava and subsequently also an editor of broadcasting in Košice. In 1968 they founded the State Philharmonic Košice together with the conductor Bystrík Režucha. He held the post of its first director until 1971. For the next three years he was the director of Slovkoncert and later he worked as the editor-in-chief of the music broadcasting of Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava or editor-in-chief of music broadcasting of Czechoslovak television in Prague. From 1987 to 1990, Čížek served as the director of the Czech Philharmonic, where he experienced a turbulent year of 1989. In 1991, he and Josef Suk founded the Antonín Dvořák Foundation for Young Musicians. In addition to his rich musicological and organizational activities, he published in many professional journals and also contributed to the discovery of the Slovak composer Jozef Grešák. His relationship to Slovak music is also reflected in his two publications With Slovak Music to the World [So slovenskou hudbou do sveta]and the manuscript of The Journey of the Slovak Opera [Cesty slovenskej opery].