About me

Born in 1987 in Zabok, Croatia, she had her piano recital début in the hall of the Croatian Composers' Society in Zagreb at the age of 15 and her first piano concerto performance at the age of 16 with the City Orchestra of Pärnu in Estonia by performing the KV. 414 Piano concerto by W. A. Mozart under the direction of Jüri Alperten.

Her career includes international solo performances, world premières of contemporary music (e.g. iSonatina by Gordan Tudor performed with the flautist Marta Šomođi-Homan), live broadcasts and diverse range of artistic projects and collaborations (e.g. EPTA Congress in Rome, HR-Project at the Music Biennale Zagreb with the Trio Sequenza, awarded with the Special Rectors' Award of the University of Zagreb). She had the honour of performing Kreisleriana by R. Schumann in the house of Franz Liszt in Weimar as a part of the European commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his birth. In spring 2013 she was invited by the Croatian Embassy in Brussels to perform with violinist Daniel Kuzmin in the honour of Croatia’s accession to the European Union at the ceremony in Luxembourg. Same year she has also performed with soprano Oulyana Struchkova in the Parliament of the Fédération Wallonie-Brussels on the occasion of its 45th anniversary of existence.
Her former musical activity also covers being a docent on the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Köln, Germany during 2011 and 2012.

Internationally, her education includes the obtained Master of Arts - Magna cum Laude degree in solo performance in the class of professor Alan Weiss and Master of Arts Summa cum Laude - Chamber Music at Lemmensinstituut in Leuven, piano accompaniment Master of Arts Magna cum Laude in the class of prof. Jean-Pierre Moemaers on the Conservatoire Royal de Liège, Belgium and studies at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany in the class of professor Grigory Gruzman. She has also received musical advices from Lilya Zilberstein, Andrey Pisarev, Désiré N'Kaoua, Boris Giltburg, Daniel Rivera, David Miller, Dina Joffe, Diane Andersen, Eugen Indjic, Pietro Da Maria and Sergio Tiempo. During her education in Croatia she has graduated in the class of professor Dalibor Cikojević with degrees Classical piano performer and Piano pedagogue on the Music Academy in Zagreb and was under previous mentorship of Ljerka Čavić-Tomčik, professor Arbo Valdma on GU 'Elly Basic' and Slavica Viličić at Elementary Music school 'Ksaver Sandor Gjalski' Zabok. During high school and studies, she was a recipient of the Zagreb City Scholarship for Talented students and the German DAAD Kontakt-Stipendium.

Her wide chamber music repertoire has made her a wanted accompanist and chamber music collaborator. In 2018 she was the official piano accompanist in ClarinetFest Young Artist Competition in Oostende, Belgium and was the pianist of Midsummer Mozartiade Festival in Bruxelles in the production of the opera Cosi fan tutte. In 2017 she had been the official piano accompanist of the 4th International clarinet competition in Ghent, Belgium and has been involved in the production of opera Don Giovanni in the Théâtre des Martyrs, Bruxelles under the direction of maestro David Miller.

She performs regularly as a soloist and with chamber partners. She is engaged as freelance pedagogue, and her students have successfully presented themselves at competitions (Steiway Piano Competition) and performances accompanied by string quartets . In December 2021, she participated in the International Didactic Symposium in La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain) with the topics 'Learning in an educational and cultural context', and 'Spanish humanism and the figure of Don Quixote in music'.

She had also performed in concert series "Pulcheria concerten", "Edegemse concerten", “Lisinski subotom”, “Mladi u Lisinskom”, "Glazbenici Zagrebu" and “Virtuoso". Her work My Mums' Stories for which she is the author of both music and lyrics, was performed at the Croatian Children Festival in 2005 and subsequently released on a compact disc. She has recorded for HRT (Croatian Radio and Television), VRT (Vlaamse radio-televisie), ACTV (Antenne Center Television- Wallonie) and Radio Alma/Terra curanda (Belgium/Argentina).

She speaks English, German, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish and Croatian.