Vida Vujic

studied cello with Rudolf Leopold at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz and chamber music with Johannes Meissl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

She is a multiple winner of first and second prizes at international competitions in Serbia, Italy and Austria. She has received several awards (including the Austrian Ministry of Culture's Appreciation Prize in 2003 and the Stanojlo Rajcic Prize for the best concert in 2006/07 in the SANU Gallery - Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Serbia).

As a soloist and chamber musician, she has played numerous concerts in various chamber music ensembles in Europe and South America (e.g. at the "Strings only" festival in Zadar, Croatia, the International Cello Festival in Belgrade, Serbia, the "Styriarte" in Graz ; in the halls of the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Vienna Musikverein, the Graz Liszt Hall, and in the Salle Pleyel in Paris,). In addition, she participated in radio and television recordings for RTS (Radio Televizija Srbije) and ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation).

Vida Vujic has been Johannes Meissl's assistant since 2014 and has also been a senior lecturer at the Joseph Haydn Institute for Chamber Music and Contemporary Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2021.

She held master classes at the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (ISA), European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), Conservatorio Superior de Musica Oscar Espla -Alicante, Faculty of Music - University of Arts in Belgrade, The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, Croatian Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek and Academy of Arts in Split.

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