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Born in Belgrade, she began studying piano at the age of five and at sixteen she was graduated from the Conservatory of Music " S. Mokranjac " of Belgrade. In the same year she enrolled, being the youngest student, at the University of Musical Arts in Belgrade, where she graduated at the age of 20 with full marks with Prof. Suica Babic.
At the same University she obtained the two-year post-graduate specialization diploma, considered the highest academic
degree.
During her studies she received numerous awards in her homeland: first prizes in national competitions for three
years consecutive, 1984 Student of the Year Award, Best Young Performer Award, prize of the Olga Mihajlovic
Foundation.
From the age of 18 she undertook an intense concert activity in her country: both in the most important Festivals and in
Recital at the major venues of cities such as Belgrade, Nis, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Kotor,
Skoplje; both as a soloist with the most prestigious orchestras (Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the
Yugoslav Radio and Television, Jna Orchestra, Zagreb Soloists, Radio and Television Orchestra of Ljubljana,
Philharmonic Orchestra of Scoplje, Symphony Orchestra of Nis etc.) and in collaboration with important conductors
(Zivojin Zdravkovic, Fimco Muratovski, Janez Grah, Dejan Savic, Pavle Medakovic, Joze Frait).
She has made numerous recordings for Yugoslavian Radio-Television channels and has recorded for several record
companies in her country (PGP RTB). In Italy she made the recordings for Rai-Radio Tre, Radio Vatican, in Germany for
Bayerischer Rundfunk München, in Latin America for Radio Nacional (Chile), Spain, Portugal, Hungary and so on.
In Italy she graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, then she has continued the High
Specialization studies at the Ecole Normale " Alfred Cortot " de Paris, where, in 1991, she obtained the 5th level diploma,
ranking among the first four of the considerable number of participants in the course.
She has received various awards in
Italy, including: first place in the international competitions of Udine (1985), Macugnaga (1988), absolute first prizes in the
national competitions of Rome (1987), Velletri (1987), again Rome (1989).
For several years she has carried out an intense concert activity as a soloist and in various chamber ensembles at
important venues in Italy (such as: Milano, Torino, Trieste, Udine, Venezia, Firenze, Perugia, Roma, Pescara, L'Aquila,
Foggia, Bari, Taranto, Catanzaro, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Catania, Agrigento, etc.) and abroad (France, Spain,
Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Poland, Tunisia,
Libya, Morocco, Egypt, United States, Latin America,China), in cities such as: Paris, Madrid, Malaga, Barcelona,
??Valladolid, Rheinsberg, Munich, Berlin, Athens, Budapest, Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra, Prague, Zurich, Geneva,
Copenhagen, Stockholm, Bucharest, Warsaw, Krakow, Tunis, Atlanta (USA), Savannah (USA), New York, Baltimore .
She has taken part several times in juries of important national and international piano competitions. For several years
she has been the President of the " AMADEUS " association of Teramo, through which she has curated various cultural
and educational initiatives including the foundation of the homonymous music academy which today is an important point
of reference in the panorama citizen music.
She has taught piano at various music conservatories including the " U. Giordano " of Foggia from 2006 to 2015. She
currently holds the principal piano chair at the Conservatory " G. Braga " in Teramo, where she became Director in
November 2020 until 2023.Currently,she acts as deputy director
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