Ľubica Čekovská was born in Humenné in 1975. She graduated from the Academy of Music and Drama with first class honours in Music Theory (1993–1998), with professor Juraj Beneš. While there she also studied Composition with professor Dušan Martinček (1995 – 2000). She then studied on the postgraduate performance course in composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London with professor Paul Patterson. Whilst at the RAM she was awarded two full-fee scholarships and received the Manson Bequest Prize. She continued her musical education with Robert Saxton, Thomas Adès, Arvo Pärt and Harrison Birtwistle. Since 1994 is a pianist of the orchestra Bratislava Hot Serenaders. In 1996 absolved Summer Course for Composers in Czech Republic and 1997 4th International Summer Course for Young Composers in Radziejowice in Poland (Penderecki, Patterson, Hamel, Iglesias-Rossi). Since september 2000 works as assistant at the Academy of Music and Drama in Bratislava. In 2008 became member of the International Music Festival Prague Spring´s artistic board, as an only representant of the Slovak Republic. At the present time, Ľubica Čekovská is a new author of the publishing house Bärenreiter.
Prizes and awards include the Cuthbert Nunn Composition Prize of the Royal Academy of Music 1998 for the piece Fragment and Elegies for Bayan Solo, the Mosco Carner Award, the Leverhulme Award 1999, the Elsie Owen Prize 1999 of the Royal Academy of Music and the ISH Scholarship of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother 1998-2000. She is a recent recipient of the Ján Levoslav Bella Prize from the Slovak Music Fund. This was awarded for her Piano Concerto in Two Movements.
Ľubica Čekovská has had a number of her works performed in major contemporary music festivals: The David Oistrakh Festival in Pärnu in Estonia, Spitalfields Festival in London, Melos-Ethos Festival in Bratislava, Aspekte Festival in Salzburg. The world première of her work Turbulence for full symphony orchestra was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and cooperated with various slovak orchestras (Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta of Žilina) and other large European Orchestras.
She participated in the project Cultural Year of the TEN in May 2005, where she was commissioned to write a response to Schubert’s Winterreise for performance in the Herbert von Karajan Chamber room of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. In 2005 she was commissioned with four other composers by Staatsoper Hannover to write zeitoper010: as time goes by, inspired by the 50th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s death. After the commission of the Slovak Philharmonic she created Adorations for the symphony orchestra.