{"id":27963,"date":"2024-09-17T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/?page_id=27963"},"modified":"2024-09-17T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T20:17:44","slug":"pavol-kusik","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/pavol-kusik\/","title":{"rendered":"Pavol Ku\u0161\u00edk"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-658x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-658x1024.jpg 658w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-768x1195.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-987x1536.jpg 987w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-1317x2048.jpg 1317w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-600x933.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/PK-scaled.jpg 1646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Predvolen\"><b>Pavol Ku\u0161\u00edk<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Predvolen\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Predvolen\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He started his musical journey at the age of 6 by playing piano, and moved to the double bass eight years later. Thanks to his passionate teachers (M. Trgov<\/span>\u00e1, B. Hr\u00ed<span lang=\"EN-US\">n) he fell in love with the bass so much that he decided to study this instrument at Conservatory in Bratislava (Z. Janikovi<\/span>\u010d<span lang=\"EN-US\">) and at The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava further on<\/span> (R. \u0160a\u0161ina)<span lang=\"EN-US\">. During his studies he widened his musical skills with the help of another inspiring personalities at various masterclasses (J. Niederhammer, F. Rabbath, T. Barb<\/span><span lang=\"FR\">\u00e9<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, C. Rotaru, S. Colley, &#8230;). Along the classical repertoire he always loved to play another music genres, such as slovak folk music, argentine tango, jazz or free improvisation. This led to another studies in jazz arranging (M. Jakab<\/span>\u010d<span lang=\"EN-US\">ic) and composition (V. Gr<\/span>\u00e4<span lang=\"EN-US\">ffinger). His own compositions he used to perform with his in Bratislava based instrumental quartet named Vo<\/span>\u013en\u00fd p\u00e1<span lang=\"EN-US\">d. Since 2011 he <\/span>has been<span lang=\"EN-US\"> a member of the orchestra Fats Jazz Band, which, under the leadership of Ladislav Fanzowitz, plays early jazz and swing music from late 1920s till 1940s in so called historical informed performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Predvolen\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"Predvolen\">Pavol Ku\u0161\u00ed<span lang=\"EN-US\">k began to devote himself to teaching activities already during his studies at V<\/span>\u0160<span lang=\"EN-US\">MU. Since 2007, he has been working as a double bass and bass guitar teacher at the Jozef Kres<\/span>\u00e1<span lang=\"EN-US\">nek Elementary Art School in Bratislava, of which he himself is a former graduate. He received several awards for his teaching activities, <\/span>and<span lang=\"EN-US\">also participated in the creation of the State <\/span>E<span lang=\"FR\">ducational <\/span>P<span lang=\"EN-US\">rogram for the elementary art schools in Slovakia<\/span> in the field of double bass playing.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavol Ku\u0161\u00edk &nbsp; He started his musical journey at the age of 6 by playing piano, and moved to the double bass eight years later. Thanks to his passionate teachers (M. Trgov\u00e1, B. Hr\u00edn) he fell in love with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/pavol-kusik\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27964,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27963","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27965,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27963\/revisions\/27965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slovakdoublebassclub.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}