Vlado Zatko was born in Slovakia in 1979 and received his first double bass lessons with Jan Krigovsky at the Žilina Conservatory. After only two years, he won 2nd prize at the National Double Bass Competition in Bratislava. This was followed by studies in Germany with Professors Klaus Trumpf and Dorin Marc and as the last student of Maestro Ovidiu Badila (†). In 2006 he completed the soloist class with Klaus Trumpf in Munich with distinction. A first permanent engagement took him to the Royal Chapel and Opera Copenhagen in 2006, where he rose to the position of assistant principal bass in 2007. Since October 2008 Vlado Zatko has been 1st solo bassist of the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as a guest in numerous orchestras, including the Bavarian State Orchestra Munich, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, the Malmö Symfoniorkester, the double bass quartet Bassiona Amorosa and the Berlin Soloist Octet. He has been teaching at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf since 2012.
Vlado Zatko teaches double bass at the Anton Rubinstein International Music Academy.
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