Sixteen-year-old violinist Lana Zorjan from Serbia has been honored with the 2024 International Classical Music Award – Discovery Award, marking a significant milestone as the first Serbian musician to achieve this global recognition.
Sixteen-year-old Serbian violinist Lana Zorjan has been awarded the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) – Discovery Award 2024, also known as the Oscar in the world of classical music.
“Born in 2008, the young Serbian violinist Lana Zorjan has already garnered domestic and international awards and is experienced on the stage with around 300 concert performances. Her notably natural handling of the violin is evident even in highly virtuosic pieces. She conveys a musical personality and has the gift of transmitting her joy of music-making to the audience,” states the rationale for the award given by an international jury of 19 music critics.
The first musician from Serbia to receive the Oscar in the world of classical music, Zorjan began playing the violin at the age of four.
She comes from a family of artists, as her father is an opera singer and her mother is a violin professor.
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