Ján Slávik

Ján Slávik performs in chamber ensembles and as a soloist. He is a founding member of the Moyzes Quartet, with whom he appeared in thousands of concerts in almost all European countries, in USA, Canada and Japan and recorded over 30 CD's. Moreover, he is a member of the chamber ensemble Solisten der Salzburgen Mozart-Serenaden, of the Amadé string trio, as well as of other piano trios, where he appears alongside prominent Slovak musicians (Alexander Jablokov, František Török and Stanislav Mucha, Daniela Varínska and Katarína Brejková). As for hic chamber music activities, he has been collaborating with Juraj Čižmarovič, Alexander Lakatoš, Harald Nerata, Jozef Podhoranský, Eugen Prochác, Tomáš Gaál, Gabriela Hamarová, Eleonóra Slaničková-Škutová, Marián Lapšanský, Ivan Gajan, Pavol Virág, Igor Fáber, Branislav Dugovič, Aladár Jánoško, Martin Krajčo, Zuzana Töröková, Katarína Turnerová, Gabriela Beňačková, Nao Higano, Peter Mikuláš as well as with the Janáček Quartet and the Kubíno Quartet. As a soloist, he has collaborated with all prominent Slovak orchestras, with the Barcelona Simfonietta and Salzburg chamber orchestra. Among his conducting partners were Adolf Vykydal, Bystrík Režucha, Róbert Stankovský, Karol Kevický, Ondrej Lenárd, Leoš Svárovský, Bohdan Warchal, Jack van Steen, Hideaki Umeda, Harald Nerat, Joan Luis Moraleda, Stephen Somary. He has appeared in concerts on all the important Slovak music festivals, as for the international ones, the audience saw him at the Wurzer Sommerkonzerte (DE), Young Stage in Karlovy Vary (CZ), Festival Haute-Savoi (FR), Vendrell – Festival international de Musica Pau Casals (ES), Ljubljana international music festival (SI), Sommerkonzerte Langenargen (DE), Festival Est-Ouest Die (FR), Neue Musik Hannover (DE) and elsewhere. He regularly leads performers’ master classes (e.g. 3 summer courses in Žilina, Making the Talent in Dolný Kubín, International performers´ classes in Komárno, as well as workshops in Žilina and Dolný Kubín).