• 1958 – 1962

    percussion at the Brno Conservatory (under Josef Lukáš)

  • 1958

    member of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra (director of the percussion section and first timpanist)

  • 1994

    member of the international, Vienna-based, United Philharmonic Orchestra as a timpanist and head of the percussion section

  • since 1995

    regularly cooperation with the Solistes Européens Luxemburg Orchestra

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He has performed as a soloist in almost all imaginable genres – brass, popular, Dixieland, folk, operetta, opera, chamber, and symphony music. He has also performed as a soloist at concerts of the Slovak Philharmonic and the international Bratislava Music Festival.

František Rek's solo performances generally receive rave reviews.

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