Peter Lipa

Eleven-year secondary school in Prešov

Post-secondary education – surveying technical school in Košice

Participation in amateur theatre in Prešov

 Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology (SVŠT) in Bratislava (graduated in 1968, engineer degree)

Member of the amateur band Struny (Strings)

Vocalist of the group Istropolitana; co-founder of the formation Blues Five – participation in the 2nd Czechoslovak Beat Festival in Prague

Editor at Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava (science and technology editorial office, later music programs)

Member of Gustav Offermann’s Combo

Private singing studies with František Tugendlieb

Member of the Revival Jazz Band; editor at Czechoslovak Radio in Bratislava

Organizer and dramaturge of the Bratislava Jazz Days festival

Postgraduate studies in journalism at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

Freelance artist; founded Peter Lipa Combo (Peter Lipa – vocals, Peter Breiner – piano, Stano Herko – bass guitar, Cyril Zeleňák – drums), which performed at the Bratislava Jazz Days in 1977

Lipa – Andršt Blues Band (Peter Lipa – vocals, Luboš Andršt – guitar, Aleš Charvát – bass guitar, Boris Urbánek – keyboards, Pavol Kozma – drums)

Duo with Peter Breiner (piano)

Member of a group focusing on traditional jazz T + R Band

President of the Slovak Jazz Society

Vocal coach at Jazz Workshops in Bratislava organized by the Slovak Jazz Society

 Formation of his own band after parting ways with T + R Band (Juraj Lehotský – trumpet, Dušan Húščava – saxophone, František Karnok – trombone, Andrej Šebo – bass guitar, Pavol Bodnár – piano, Cyril Zeleňák / Stanislav Cvanciger – drums)

Participation in the Jazz Vocal Workshop in Bologna (Italy)

Co-organizer of the Jazz Polička festival in the Czech Republic

Lipa – Šeban Band (Peter Lipa – vocals, Andrej Šeban – guitar, Juraj Tatár – keyboards, Martin Gašpar – bass guitar, Marcel Buntaj – drums); after Andrej Šeban left, the group was renamed Peter Lipa & Band (+ Michal Žáček – saxophones, flute)

Visegrad Blues Band (Leszek Cichoński – guitar, Zbygniew Jakubek – keyboards, Ondřej Konrád – harmonica, János Solti – drums, Egon Póka – bass guitar)

Peter Lipa Band (Michal Fedor – drums, Michal Žáček – saxophone, Michal Šimko – bass guitar, Peter Lipa Jr. – keyboards)