Vlado Vizár

Music school in Banská Bystrica, piano

Private music school, double bass and percussion

Private music school, trombone with Prof. Michal Galovec

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

member of the jazz orchestra Banská Bystrica Dixieland (trombone)

Miloš Oberuč’s student orchestra in Bratislava

member of the Dixie Student Bratislava orchestra

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

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

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

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

member of Bratislava’s big band as its first trombonist

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

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

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

private school of trombone music with Miloš Pongrác

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

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

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