Karol Medňanský

Hight School in Prievidza

Conservatory Žilina (violoncello – Július Mehly)

member of the Sing-play Orchestra at New Scene in Bratislava, at the same time member of the early music ensemble Chorea Antiqua

tutti player, later deputy concert master of violoncello section in the orchestra of Nordhausen Theatre, Germany

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar, Germany, violoncello (Prof. Herbert Bäz), composition (Prof. Alfred Kleeman)

member of Cairo Symphony Orchestra, at the same time pedagogue at Conservatory for Arab Music, European Music Department

member of the Sing-play of Jonáš Záborský Theatre in Prešov (1981 – 1983, 1987 – 1989, 1991 – 2001)

member of the Opera Orchestra of the State Theatre in Košice (1983 – 1987, 1989 – 1991)

attendance at master classes Early Music in Valtice (Czech Republic), lecturers: Siegfried Pank (Germany), Richard Boothby (England), José Vásquez (Spain/Austria), Ilse Herbert (Romania)

Academy of Early Music at The Institute of Musicology, Masaryk University in Brno, Baroque Performance Praxis Division, specialization viola da gamba (Thomas Fritzsch, Pierre Pitzl)

artistic director and conductor of university chamber orchestra Camerata Academica at University of Prešov in Prešov

external pedagogue at Music Education Department of Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences at University of Prešov in Prešov (since 2001 as internal pedagogue and assistant)

artistic director and viola da gamba player of chamber ensemble Musica Historica Prešov

Jiratschek Stipendium, Staatsbibliothek Wien

scholarship DAAD, three months study in Bach-Archiv Leipzig and study of viola da gamba at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Leipzig (Prof. Siegfried Pank)

assistant at Music Department of Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences at University of Prešov in Prešov

scholarship holder of Austrian Institute for Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Department in Bratislava for Vienna study stay (at Ernst Krenek Institut and Arnold Schönberg Center)

PhD degree in Theory and History of Music at Institute of Musicology of Slovak Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava, dissertation: Viola da Gamba in Johann Sebastian Bachs' Cantatas

artistic director and viola da gamba player in Collegium Musicum Rzesow, Poland

participant in Socrates/Erasmus program at Universität Lüneburg and Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Germany)

participant in CEEPUS program at University in Szeged, Hungary

participant in Socrates/Erasmus program at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar (Germany)

docent degree (assistant professor) in Music Theory and Education at Pedagogical Faculty at University of Ostrava, habilitation thesis: Chamber Works of Mikuláš Moyzes

assistant professor at Music Department of Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences at University of Prešov in Prešov

assistant professor at Music Department of Music Department of Faculty of Arts at University of Prešov in Prešov

IP Erasmus staty at Faculty of Education at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic)

Erasmus plus (May 2018) study in Telemann's center in Magdeburg, area of study: Telemann's pedagogical works and sacred compositions