He continued to study composition at the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts under Vilém Petrželka and Theodor Schaefer, graduating in 1962 with his Concerto for Orchestra.
[1] Far more influential for Bárta were his post-graduate studies with Miloslav Ištvan and Ctirad Kohoutek at the Janáček Academy.
These courses exposed him to the Second Viennese School, Bartók and other 20th-century classics, experimental and electronic music.
[2] Bárta was a long-time professor of music theory and composition at the Brno Conservatory.
His pupils include Alexander Müller, Karel Škarka and Jaroslav Kopecký.