Siloš Pohanka

Conservatory in Bratislava (trumpet, Adolf Scherbaum)

member of Dance Orchestra Of Bratislava Undergraduates focused on swing and partially modern jazz

member of Slovak Philharmonic

member of the group Kolektív (Collective)

member of The Orchestra Of Ján Siváček, leader of the trumpet section

foundation of the group Dixieland (Vieroslav Matušík – cl, Bohumil Trnečka – tn, V. Machek – pf, F. Mitterhauszer – banjo, A. Janák – tu, M. Lánik – bgui, Bohuslav Synek – dr) with which he intensivelly recorded music for Czechoslovak Radio and realized programs for emerging TV broadcast

founder of The Orchestra Of Siloš Pohanka (Juraj Lehotský, Ladislav Liso, Siloš Pohanka – tr, Imrich Kuruc, Rudolf Riavec – sxa, Ján Štubňák – sxt, Jiří Bureš – sxb, Alois Bouda (occasionally Ladislav Gerhardt and František Havlíček) – pf, Miro Lánik – bgui, Bohumil Synek – dr) which in 1960s became the most used orchestra specifically for television. Collaborators with the orchestra were composers and arrangers Alois Bouda, František Havlíček, Eduard Parma, Tomáš Seidmann, Vieroslav Matušík, Pavol Zelenay and others.

Orchestra Of Siloš Pohanka performing in the first co-production Slovak-Austrian movie Jazz For Two (vocal soloists Gabriela Hermélyová and Zuzana Lonská)

performing at International Jazz Festival in Prague (CZ, with compositions of Bohumil Trnečka)

solo career (mostly as a studio musician in Munich, Germany)

return to Bratislava

together with Braňo Hronec renewed and led the Czechoslovak Television Dance Orchestra in Bratislava