Vanja Markesina, prof.

She received her primary and secondary musical education at the Zlatko Baloković School of Music in Zagreb in the class of prof. Dee Deticek. She graduated in flute in 2008 at the Academy of Music in Zagreb in the class of prof. Renate Penezić. She attended seminars of distinguished pedagogues and flautists such as Pierre-Yves Artoud, Furugh Karimi, Matej Zupan, Michael Martin Kofler, Katrin Zenz and Aranka Forthangler.

She won the first prize at the chamber music competition in Opatija in 2006 as part of a duo. She participated in the Friedrich Kuhlau International Competition in Uelzen and in the Flautist Festival in 2006 in Larissa, Athens and Thessaloniki.

She is a permanent member of the Nymphs quartet and the Strauss ensemble, with which she performed numerous times in Croatia. She works as a flute teacher at the Zlatko Baloković Music School in Zagreb.