• 1972 – 1976

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (voice – Mária Kišoňová-Hubová)

  • 1976 – 1978

    study at P. I. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Russia (Yevgeny Nesterenko) and in Sienna, Italy

  • 1982 – 1985

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, doctoral study (Mária Kišoňová-Hubová)

  • since 1979

    pedagogue of concert and opera singing at Voice Department of Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (the head of Voice Department), also lecturer of voice master classes

Hana Štolfová-Bandová has won awards at several voice competitions. Her focus is on concert singing, and she is renowned performer of songs and chamber music literature, as well as being a popular soloist in big vocal-instrumental works. She has performed in many solo recitals and concerts on domestic and foreign stages in artistic cooperation with significant orchestras and conductors. She is also a popular partner of classical and untraditional chamber groups. She regularly performs original Slovak music including premieres of compositions of contemporary authors. As a soloist she was a guest at the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre.

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