Biography

* March 16, 1956, Bratislava

1962–1971 – elementary school in Bratislava

1964–1971 – piano lessons at the public school of music

1969–1971 – private study of composition (Peter Bartovic)

1971–1975 – study of composition (Juraj Pospíšil), piano playing (Mária Masariková) at the Conservatory in Bratislava

1973–1980 – domestic music-making at the Ján Albrecht's house

1975–1980 – study of composition (Dezider Kardoš) at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava

1979–1988 – editor of the music books department of the OPUS publishing house

1984            – a member of the Union of Slovak Composers (after 1990 the Association of Slovak Composers as the part of the Slovak Music Union)

1985–1991 – a part-time teacher at the Department of composition of the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava

1988–1989 – a study stay at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (Roman Haubenstock-Ramati)

1988–1992 – postgraduate student at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Jan. 1990   – chairman of the Association of Slovak Composers

1992–1996 – musicologist at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

June 1993  – a defence of the PhD thesis Battaglia and mimesis

1991–1996 – chief editor of the Slovenská hudba (Slovak Music) revue

1993–1994 – composer in residence of the Slovak Philharmonic

1997–2019 – lecturer at the Department of Aesthetics of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Comenius University (history of aesthetics, history of music)

1997–1999 – director of the publishing department of the National Music Centre

1999–2016 – director of the publishing house Scriptorium musicum

2001–2007 – guest associate professor, teacher of composition at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica

2008–2017 – president of the Committee of the Bratislava Music Festival

2008–2009 – chairman of the Association of Slovak Composers

2009–...       – member of the civic association Albrechtina

2011–2012 – a lecturer at the Department of Composition and Conducting at the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava

2013–2015 – associate professor at the Department of Composition and Conducting at the University of Performing Arts in Bratislava

2017–2024 – editor of the Publishing Department of the Music Centre Slovakia, Head of the Publishing Department of the MCS