Experience & Education

• WISE: Wien - International Soloists Ensemble 2013 – Present

  Leader/Concertmaster/Art. Director
  In 2013 I founded and am leading to date the Vienna-based international ensemble of soloists - WISE: Wien International Soloists Ensemble. With international tours and a Viennese concert season we are exploring the broad art music repertoire.

• VaClaF: Vareš Classic Festival 2013 – Present

  Founder/CEO/Art. Director
  VaClaF is an international music festival promoting art music and music education, as well as arts and culture in general. Our mission is to provide high quality (and contemporary!) art and education for all and make it relevant to the society today.

• Musisches Zentrum Wien | Academia Musica Vienna | Pinnacle Study Institute Vienna - University of Oregon | Pavao Markovac School of Music n 2009 – Present

  Violin professor, Chamber music professor, Music theory teacher
  Passionately teaching diverse generations of students since my first teaching job at the Pavao Markovac School of Music in Zagreb, in 2009.

• MDW - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute for Conducting 2016 – Present

  Concertmaster Pro Arte Orchestra
  I work at the Viennese Music University, Institute for Conducting, collaborating with all the professors of conducting as a Concertmaster of the Pro Arte Orchestra, educating new generations of young conductors.

• University of Oregon & Pinnacle Study Institute Vienna 2015 – 2016

  Violin and Chamber music professor (BA & MA students abroad)
  I was a violin and chamber music professor for the BA & MA students of the University of Oregon Study Abroad Programme in Vienna in the academic year 2015/2016

• University of Music and Performing Arts Graz 2014 – 2017

  2nd MA in Violin Performance (Konzertfach)
  After finishing my first MA in Zagreb aged only 22, I have decided to continue my studies in Austria, at the KUG. I have been working with Eszter Haffner (violin) and Herbert Kefer (chamber music & viola) and subsequently with Andrej Bielow (violin)

• University of Zagreb, Music Academy 2005 – 2011

  Mag. Art., Violin Performance and Pedagogy
  I have started studying the violin in Zagreb, Croatia with a renowned Croatian Violinist and pedagogue Maja Dešpalj Begović. Chamber music with Jože Haluza, viola with Krešimir Petar Pustički. Graduated with distinction in 2011.