PaedDr. Mgr. art Katarína Koreňová studied composition (Juraj Pospíšil) and conducting (Zdeněk Bílek) at the State Conservatory in Bratislava. She continued her studies at the VŠMU in Bratislava in the field of choir conducting (Prof. Peter Hradil). In the years 1990 - 1998, she first worked as an accompanist and later as a conductor with the Škovránok children's choir at Petržalka cultural facilities in Bratislava. Since 1997, she has been working as a teacher of profile and music-theoretical subjects (composition, conducting, aural analysis, improvisation...) at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory in Banská Bystrica. In the years 1997 - 1998, she was the conductor of the Chamber Orchestra and the Girls' choir of Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory. In 2001, she became the conductor of the J.L.Bella Conservatory Mixed Choir, with which she performed many domestic as well as foreign performances (France, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania). In the years 2006 - 2010, she founded and led the Children's Choir at Private Primary Artistic School Pink Harmony Studio and the Youth Choir at Pink Harmony Academy in Zvolen. She expanded her education in 2000 with a rigorous exam in the field of study teaching general education subjects in the specialization music education at Faculty of Humanities - MBU and later in 2006 - 2009 with a bachelor's degree in composition at Artistic Academy, Faculty of Music Arts in Banská Bystrica (Prof. Vojtech Didi)
She is a regular member of juries of Slovak conservatory competitions in the field of composition, choral festivals of Viliam Figuš Bystrý, Opava cantat, regional choral competitions Mládež spieva and others. In 2009, she taught a conducting course in Martin.
Since 2020, he has been writing reviews for Hubodný život and the Internet magazine Opera.sk
She currently works at the Ján Levoslav Bella Conservatory as a teacher of the main subjects of composition and conducting, auditory analysis, conducting basics and leads a mixed choir. She is also active in the field of composition for various vocal, instrumental and combined groups.
