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2002 – 2008
studied at the Conservatory in Košice (violin)
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2006 – 2008
worked as a teacher in Bardejov (Private Elementary School of Arts; Michal Vilec Elementary School of Arts)
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2008 – 2013
studied at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno (Musicology; Theory and Practice of Early Music; Baroque violin)
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2011 – 2013
member of the Czech Ensemble Baroque 2012 worked as a teacher at the UNIVERSUM Elementary School of Arts in Brno
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2013 – 2015
worked at the Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
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2013 – 2016
doctoral studies: Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, Department of Russian Studies; training institution: Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava (Slavic Studies and Slavic Languages), PhD.
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since 2016
research fellow at the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava
Mgr. Mária Blahunková, PhD. is a Slovak musicologist and instrumentalist.
She graduated in Musicology and the Theory and Practice of Early Music programme from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno. She subsequently completed her doctoral studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Since 2016, she has been a research fellow at the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.
Her research focuses on the liturgical music of the Byzantine-Slavonic rite, particularly Carpathian prostopinije, and its significance within the ethnically and religiously distinctive environment of eastern Slovakia and parts of Ukraine, Poland, and Hungary. She specialises in the development of individual liturgical-musical forms, their origins and transmission in manuscript and printed collections from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, as well as their continuity in contemporary liturgical practice.
From 2011 to 2013, while studying in Brno, she was a member of the Czech Ensemble Baroque.