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1954 – 1958
University of Education in Bratislava, Slovak and Hungarian languages • 1958 – 1962 teacher of music and Slovak language at schools in Komárno and Bratislava • from the 1960’s theoretical and critical activities and journalism in the field of jazz and modern popular music • 1962 – 1963 programme editor of radio jazz concerts (Young Studio series ); music journalist (“Smena” daily; magazines Hudební rozhledy [Music Horizons]; Melodie [Melody]; Hudba, spev tanec [Music, Song and Dance]; Hudba pro radost [Music for Pleasure] etc.) • 1963 – 1976 sound director of the Czechoslovak Television in Bratislava • 1976 – 1992 head programme editor of minor music genres in the Music desk of the Czechoslovak TV • from 1970’s specialising in studies on Slovak pop music history • participation in a number of TV programmes on Slovak pop music as a script writer and dramaturge (Nesmúť za mnou, slovenské tangá [Don´t Pine For Me – Slovak tangos]; Spomienky na Františka Krištofa Veselého [Remembering František Krištof Veselý]; Televízne návraty [TV Reunions]; Hudobné štúdio M [M Music Studio]; Míľniky džezovej histórie [Jazz History Milestones] etc. • 1987 – 1990 lecturer on jazz history at the Dept. of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University and at the Conservatory in Bratislava • 1989 – 1990 lecturer at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna • since 1992 lives in Prague • 1993 – 1994 deputy director of the State Jewish Museum in Prague • 1994 – 1998 editor of the magazine Slovenské listy [Slovak Letters] • 1995 – 2014 educator at Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory (external lecturer on history of jazz and of modern pop music); cooperation on broadcasts of the Czech Radio on jazz • 1994 – 1999 member of the Czech Jazz Society • 1994 – 2001 member of the musicology committee of the Czech Music Fund Foundation • 2003 published the book Fenomény súčasného jazzu [Contemporary Jazz Phenomenona], Slovart Bratislava.