Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Una Smrekar got her first piano lesson at the age of five. As a student of Professor Vlasta Marijan and Ana Vimpolšek, she already won in her early age numerous awards at national and international competitions.

Being educated as a pianist in her hometown, she also graduated as a dancer at the Contemporary Dance School ˝Ana Maletić˝in 2007.

At the age of seventeen, Smrekar was continuing her piano studies at the Zagreb University Academy of Music with Professor Đorđe Stanetti, who himself was a student of Bruno Seidlhofer and Leonid Brumberg.

She received a scholarship for International Summer Academy of the MDW, where she was selected as a special price-winner for her outstanding performance of Debussy.

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In her graduating year in Croatia, she got Erasmus Scholarship for her studies in Vienna.

2013 Smrekar completed her studies in Zagreb and did her Master-graduation with distinction.

At the same time, she was accepted as a student in the class of Professor Stefan Arnold at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where she graduated 2017 and got her second Bachelor´s degree. This was followed by her second master's degree in piano at the MDW Vienna.

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She is an active member of Yehudi Menuhin's Live Music Now Foundation for highly talented musicians.

Being an artist of this agency she performs in numerous concerts, including a concert in Vienna's Konzerthaus.

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Smrekar's artistic development was influenced by masterclasses with musicians such as Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Eugen Inđić, Ruben Dalibaltayan, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Jan Jirecek von Arnim, Martin Hughes, Gregory Gruzman, Stefan Mendl, Marialena Fernandes, Milana Chernyavska and Boris Romanov.

 

As a soloist and chamber musician, Smrekar has performed in Croatia, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Macedonia.

 

Since 2019 she is a director and piano teacher at "MusikUnique" international music school in Vienna.

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