Ana Labazan Brajša

Ana Labazan Brajša (b. 2002) studied at the Elly Bašić Music School in the class of Prof. Luka Magdalenić and graduated from the Pavao Markovac Music School in the class of Prof. Ines Ana Tomić. She completed her Master's degree in Violin at the Academy of Music, University of Zagreb, studying with Prof. Leonid Sorokow, and is currently continuing her studies in the pedagogical programme under the guidance of Prof. Anna Kandinskaya at the Joseph Haydn Privathochschule in Eisenstadt, Austria.

She is a laureate and recipient of numerous first and special prizes at both national and international competitions. She has performed extensively throughout Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Liechtenstein, Spain, Bulgaria, China, and India.

Ana is deeply engaged in chamber music as well as in the performance and exploration of repertoire ranging from the Baroque period to contemporary music. She also explores jazz, arranging, and composition.

She is a member of the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra and also performs regularly with the Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Philharmonic and the chamber orchestra Split Virtuosi. As a soloist, she has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Zagreb Soloists, the Zagreb Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, the Split Virtuosi, the Croatian Musical Youth String Orchestra, the String Chamber Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Zagreb, and the Mostar Symphony Orchestra.

In May 2024, she performed Johannes Brahms's Violin Concerto in the Great Hall of the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Tomislav Fačini.

She has participated in numerous masterclasses with distinguished violinists and pedagogues, including Boris Garlitsky, Enrico Onofri, Meesun Hong-Coleman, Asya Kushner, Tetiana Berkul, Wladimir Kossjanenko, and Natalia Gvozdetskaya.

In recognition of her outstanding achievements during the 2014/2015 academic year, she received the Recognition of the Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Sports. She is also a recipient of several Oskar znanja (Oscar of Knowledge) awards, the City of Zagreb "Baltazar" Award (2020), and the City of Čakovec Award as the overall winner of the 19th Rudolf Matz International Competition.