• 1990 – 1996

    Conservatory in Košice (piano – Melánia Hermanová, composing – Jozef Podprocký)

  • 1996 – 2001

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (composing – Dušan Martinček)

  • 1997

    composition-courses in Trstenice, Czech republic (Ivo Medek, Martin Smolka)

  • 1998

    composition course Voix Nouvelles in Abbay de Royaumont, France (Brian Ferneyhough, Johannes Schölhorn, Toshio Hosokawa)

  • 1998

    composition course in Buckow, Germany (Folke Rabe), order of composition for string quartet for the opening concert of the next course

  • 1999

    composition course in Reichenau, Austria (Michael Jarrell)

  • 1999 – 2004

    studies at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (Michael Jarell), study absolved with „Würdigungspreis“

  • 2000

    composition course in Domaine Forget, Canada (John Rea, Denis Boulian), cooperation with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne)

  • 2000, 2002

    scholarship of japan foundation Nippon-Wien

  • 2001, 2003, 2004

    participation on the music festival in Takefu, Japan

  • 2002

    participation on the german project „Musik für Ravensbrück“, commission of composition for soprano, flute, 2 accordions and piano

  • 2002, 2003

    composition course in Lugano, Swiss (Miachael Jarrell)

  • 2005

    composition course in Graz, Austria (Beat Furrer)

  • 2009 – 2013

    cooperation with the international competition Musical Spring in Rajec (compositions for the winners of the competition)

  • 2011

    the poem so langsam wie ein haar wächst (as slowly as a hair grows) included in the anthology The best 100 sent poems from the German-speaking region

  • 2013

    work scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

  • 2014

    Staatsstipendium für Komposition (State scholarship for composition) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

  • 2019 

    Staatsstipendium für Komposition (State scholarship for composition) of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture

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