You can’t do it without egoism
Ladislav Chudík was born on September 17, 1941 in Banská Bystrica to Magdalena and František Chudík. After the family was expelled from Banská Bystrica after the dissolution of the Slovak state, they moved to Velké Lomnice, where they acquired a house and a business inherited from the expelled Spiš Germans. In 1952 the business was nationalized and both parents had to take up jobs in state-owned enterprises. After completing his primary education, he studied cello at the Conservatory in Košice, and from 1964 to 1966 he performed compulsory military service in Považská Bystrica. After the war he joined the Košice Radio, played in the State Chamber Orchestra Žilina and the Di archi Slovakia Chamber Orchestra, with whom he toured the world. He and his wife had three children. In 1979 he moved to Egypt, where he was sent via Slovkoncert Bratislava of the MV CSR and lived until 1989. Shortly before the revolution he returned to Czechoslovakia, again working in the Žilina State Chamber Orchestra, occasionally working as a porter in the High Tatras. Throughout his life he was a mountaineer. In 2023 he lived with his wife in Poprad.