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Braňo Hronec
(22. 12. 1940 Hronsek, okr. Banská Bystrica)
Jazz: conducting, composition, arranging
1955 – 1961 State Conservatory in Bratislava (accordion, piano)
1957 – 1958 amateur jazz playing in the Reduta café and at youth events in the Tatra revue
1959 – 196 founder of the West Coast Combo
1961 – 1963 founder of mainstream Bratislava Jazz Studio; 1st place at the Young Creation Contest (1961, 1962)
1961 – 1969 Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava (conducting, composition) (Alexander Moyzes)
1964 – 1981 founder of the Braňo Hronec Sextet (later renamed Orchestra), touring successfully Europe, Central Asia and Cuba; the Bratislava Lyre festival (1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975)
1966 Jazz Festival Praha (CZ) (as the first Hammond player in Czechoslovakia)
1985 – 1990 conductor of the Czechoslovak Television Dance Orchestra
1990 – 1997 composition educator at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava
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