• 1924 – 1927

    Teachers' Institute in Banská Bystrica (piano, organ and violin – Viliam Figuš-Bystrý)

  • 1930 – 1935

    Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (violin – N. Kubát)

  • 1935 – 1939

    studies at the Academy of Education in Bratislava

  • 1941, 1943

    state examinations in violin, piano, organ music and singing

  • 1950 – 1953

    attended musicology and philosophy seminars at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University, later conducting and singing at the Academy of Performing Arts (V. Talich)

  • 1939 – 1945

    teacher at the Teachers' Institute in Bratislava

  • 1945 – 1949

    head of Traditional folk music department of the Košice Radio

  • 1949 – 1951

    co-founder and first artistic director of the SĽUK ensemble

  • 1951 – 1954

    head of the Traditional folk music production department of the Slovak Radio in Bratislava

  • 1954 – 1966

    conductor of the ĽUT ensemble

Pavol Tonkovič worked as a music teacher in various cities in Slovakia (Filipov, Pohronská Polhora, Brezno, Svätý Jur, Bratislava).

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