Biography

Lana Zorjan was born in 2008. and has been playing the violin since the age of 4. She has won multiple special prizes as well as laureates at international competitions (Austria, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina) and had over 300 concerts, public performances and TV appearances.

Lana is a winner of one of the most prestigious awards in classical
music, International Classical Music Award – ICMA 2024. in category
“Discovery of the year”.

She is a scholarship holder of charitable foundation “Musik&Jugend” from Liechtenstein.

She had 29 performances as a soloist with 14 different orchestras in 5 countries ( Valencia Orchestra, Komorni filharmonie Pardubice, Duna Szimfonikus Zenekar, Budafoki Dohnanyi Orchestra, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Mostar Symphony Orchestra, SNP Opera Symphony Orchestra, Vojvodina Youth Philharmonic, Kocijan 2022 contestant orchestra, Zrenjanin Chamber Orchestra, Art Link Chamber Orchestra, Kamerata Balkanika, MasterArt Academy Chamber Orchestra ), performances in Moscow, Vienna, Budapest, Usti nad Orlici, Mostar and solo concerts in Ljubljana, Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica…

Lana performed with conductors : Tomaš Brauner, Toshifumi Kanai, Alexander Liebreich, Maximilian Haberstock, Janos Kovacs, Pavel Doležal, Srboljub Dinić, Igor Tatarević, Aleksandar Kojić.
She participated in masterclasses of professors : Zakhar Bron, Latica Honda -Rosenberg, Lihay Bendayan, Stefan Milenkovich, Pavel Šporcl.
Winner of Artlink award for most promising young artist in Serbia for 2023.

Most notable competitions

– 64th International violin competition „Jaroslav Kocian”, Czech Republic, Laureate – absolute winner of all categories

– The VIII International Violin Competition ”The Josef Micka Competition” 2020. Prague, Czech Republic, first prize and special award Ph. Dr.Josef Micky .

– Virtuosos Talent Show V4+ 2020. Budapest, Hungary, special prize and public first prize by SMS vote.

– EMCY International Television Contest for Young Musicians „Nutcracker“ Moscow 2021. special prize of Academy Zakhar Bron

– “Tartini”2018. Piran, Slovenia, first prize and award for most perspective young violinist of the competition.

– International Violin Competition “Franjo Krežma” , Croatia 2022. first prize and absolute winner of all categories, 2019.first prize and special prize of Spivakov foundation.

– The 44.International violin competition “Nadalka Simeonova” 2019. Haskovo, Bulgaria, first prize.

– “Grand Prize Virtuoso Viena“2016. Vienna, Austria, first prize.

– “Ohrid Pearls” 2016. Ohrid, Macedonia, first prize.

– International Festival of Slavic music 2021. first prize and Grand prix with invitation for the final in Moscow 2022.

– “VI North International Music Competition”, 2020. Stockholm, Sweden, first prize.

– The IV International competition “Oskar Rieding”, 2020. Slovenia, first prize and a special prize for the interpretation of her own original piece.

Most notable performances as a soloist

– 2024. ICMA Award winners Gala concert with Orquesta di Valencia and Maestro Alexander Liebreich at “Palau di Musica” in Valencia, Spain.

– New Year Gala concert as a soloist of Danube Symphony Orchestra at RAM Coloseum Teatre in Budapest, 02.02.2022.

– Charity concert as a soloist with the same orchestra for medicine Foundation Dr. Edit Toros in Budapest.

– Summer tour as a soloist of Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra august 2021. in: Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Subotica, Sombor, Vršac, Sremska Mitrovica.
– Soloist of opening ceremony of 2024. “Kaleidoscope of culture” with Vojvodina Symphony orchestra and conductor Maximilian Haberstock. Concert was held in open square in front of more than 8000 people in audience
– Soloist of Camerata Balcanica at 2023. Art link festival

– 2019. Festival “Moscow meets friends”, gallery of Aleksandar Shilov, Moscow

– 2016. Musikverein, Vienna, Austria, winners concert of “Grand Prize Virtuoso” competition.

– Concert of young talents with Mostar Symphony Orchestra, Mostar, Bosnia and Hercegovina, 2021.

– The youngest ever soloist of Vojvodina Youth Philharmonic at the New Years concert in Novi Sad, Sinagogue, 2018.

– Concerts as a soloist of Zrenjanin Chamber Orchestra 2017. city halls of Belgrade, Novi Sad and Zrenjanin.

– Soloist of Art link Chamber Orchestra at USA Embassy-Belgrade 2017., 2016. Belgrade city hall and Freedom square-Novi Sad, Master Art Academy chamber orchestra – concert at Ilija Kolarac University, Belgrade, 2017.

– Masterclass of Professor Zakhar Bron, Interlaken, Switzerland, final concert, 2022.

– Masterclass of Professor Stefan Milenkovich, Čačak, 2021. and Novi Sad 2022. and 2023. final concerts.

On Lana’s musical and artistic development, the biggest positive impact have: Professor Ivana Aćimoski-Žikić (The Faculty of Music, Belgrade), Professor Imre Lakatoš (Academy of Arts, Novi Sad), Professor Zakhar Bron (Academy Zakhar Bron, Switzerland), Professor Stefan Milenkovich (Serbia)
She attends intensive-week with eminent violin professors at “Academy of Music in Liechtenstein”

Most notable tv performances for channels:

RTS2, RTS 1, Russia Kultura, RTV1, Prva TV BIH, Novosadska TV, RTV Pink.

Lana speaks fluent English and is learning 5 languages. She loves animals, dance, yoga and contortion, to play with her cats and make handmade toys for them. Lana has perfect pitch and she loves to compose because of it. Every melody she hears in her head, she can immediately write down and play. She also loves to draw, make hand crafts and crochet. Lana often spends time in the nature and is active on social media, talking to her friends from all around the world. Lana has a little sister who she loves to babysit and teach her new things.