Biography

Magdaléna Bajuszová is Associate Professor of piano performance and Head of the Department of Keyboard Instruments at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. As a child, she became an exceptional piano pupil at the Bratislava Conservatory. She later continued her studies at the Academy of Performing Arts, where she earned the Artis Doctor degree in music performance. Her teachers included Peter Čerman, Daniela Varínska, Cyril Dianovský and Ida Černecká.

Less familiar works of the piano repertoire form an important part of Bajuszová's extensive artistic profile. She has premiered numerous compositions by Slovak and international composers.

She has appeared regularly at international music festivals including Melos-Ethos, New Slovak Music, the Bratislava Music Festival and others. She has made many recordings for Slovak Radio and Czech Radio, with works by Slovak composers of different generations and artistic directions occupying a significant place in her discography.

From 1997 to 2007 she worked closely with Ilja Zeljenka, one of the most important Slovak composers. This fruitful period brought numerous premieres and recordings of his piano music. For her performance of Zeljenka's complete 24 Preludes at the Melos-Ethos festival she was nominated for the Crystal Wing Award in the Music category for 2017. In 2007 the Hevhetia label released her recording of Jozef Kolkovich's Nine Preludes, works described by music critics as almost unplayable.

For her interpretative achievements she received the Frico Kafenda Award.

She has recorded a CD of the complete piano works of Štefan Németh-Šamorínsky, one of the founders of Slovak professional musical culture; a double CD of key piano suites from the interwar European musical space by Bartók, Schoenberg, Hindemith, Poulenc, Stravinsky, Xenakis and Albrecht; a CD of piano trios by Slovak composers; and recordings of works by Beethoven, Schubert and Bartók.

In 2024 and 2025 she collaborated with the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway, on the artistic research project The Opener - sharing the performer's process, for which she was also active as an author.

Her most recent interpretative projects include CD albums conceived as live concert recordings with thematic dramaturgy: the double CD Complete Piano Works of Alexander Albrecht, the CD Ilja Zeljenka: 24 Preludes, and the double CD Slovak Piano Sonatinas, which was nominated for the Radio Head Awards 2024 Recording of the Year.