• 1952 – 1955

    Music school in Banská Bystrica, piano

  • 1957 – 1958

    Private music school, double bass and percussion

  • 1957 – 1960

    Private music school, trombone with Prof. Michal Galovec

  • 1957

    member of Ivan Kováčik’s student band in Banská Bystrica (double bass)

  • 1958 – 1961

    member of the jazz orchestra Banská Bystrica Dixieland (trombone)

  • 1961

    Miloš Oberuč’s student orchestra in Bratislava

  • 1961 – 1962

    member of the Dixie Student Bratislava orchestra

  • 1961 – 1967

    studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical Univesity in Bratislava

  • 1962

    co-founder of a Slovak jazz orchestra Revival Band, membership until 1965

  • 1965

    member of the jazz band Traditional Club Bratislava (est. 1961)

  • 1968 – 1970

    long tour in Swiss jazz clubs with the Traditional Club Bratislava (Zurich, Geneva); again membership in the Revival Jazz Band

  • 1980 – 1990

    member of Bratislava’s big band as its first trombonist

  • 1985

    trombonist in the Traditional & Revival Jazz Band (later T&R Band, since 2005 Revival & Traditional Jazz Band), created by joining of the Revival Jazz Band and the New Traditional orchestras

  • 1988

    participation of the T&R Band in a cultural delegation of Czechoslovakia in Algeria and Tunisia – recognition of the orchestra’s jazz activities

  • 1988

    member of the Slovak National Theatre drama ensemble, occasionally also of the State Chamber Opera and of the Opera ensemble of the Slovak National Theatre

  • 1995 – 2001

    private school of trombone music with Miloš Pongrác

  • 1995

    following Peter Lipa’s departure, Vizár becomes the front man of the Traditional & Revival Jazz Band; apart from permanent activities in the T&R Band also plays as solo trombonist, establishes chamber jazz acts Twobones Jazz Quintet and BB Jazz Quartet in Banská Bystrica

  • 1997

    creation of his own professional band Vlado Vizár Jazz Quartet (also Quintet), with changing cast

  • since 1998

    cooperation with an international jazz band Elly Wright & Friends, appearing in concerts across Austria

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