Ivan Marton

PhDr. Ivan Marton is a Slovak musicologist, music dramaturge, publicist, and producer. Among other things, he is involved in the creation and dramaturgy of stage and film music. After 1990, he worked as a freelancer.

In the 1960s, he was part of an active student life and the editorial staff of the later-banned magazine Echo bratislavských vysokoškolákov (Echo of Bratislava University Students). After studying musicology, Ivan Marton traveled to Western Europe, but due to the occupation by Russian troops in 1968, he was unable to return. He therefore studied for a year at the Institute of Musicology in Hamburg.

In 1989, he participated in public gatherings, and after the Velvet Revolution, he became a member of the Federal Assembly.

Ivan Marton worked in two periods for a total of thirteen years as a dramaturge of the Slovak Philharmonic. For many years, he was the chairman of the Melos-Étos festival and is currently a member of the festival committee of the Bratislava Music Festival.

He continues to be active in journalism, writing for several online and print magazines and newspapers, where he mainly reflects on social events and musical life.

For some time, he also worked as a lecturer at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava.

As a music author or curator, Marton collaborated on theatrical productions such as Stalin (Štúdio S, 1990), Kumšt (Štúdio S, 1997), Kontrabas (The Double Bass, Štúdio S, 1988), Tančiareň (The Dance Hall, Slovak National Theatre, 2001), Krajčírky (The Seamstresses, Slovak National Theatre, 2002), Sekretárky (The Secretaries, Slovak National Theatre, 2002), Život na trikrát (Life Three Times, Štúdio S, 2003), as well as on the film Útek do Budína (Escape to Buda, 2002).