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cum laude graduate from the “Giuseppe Tartini” conservatory, under the guidance of the renowned soprano Paoletta Marrocu

She began her musical training at the Music High School of Skopje under the guidance of Gonca Bogoromova Krapovski, continuing her path with leading figures of the Macedonian opera scene, including Ana Durlovski and Igor Durlovski. During her training she has taken part in masterclasses and advanced courses with internationally renowned artists such as Fiorenza Cedolins, Nelly Miricioi, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Rame Lahaj, Nicholas Isherwood, Alessandro Valentini, Blagoj Nacoski and Lorenzo Regazzo. She has developed an intensive concert career in Italy and the Balkans, performing in Trieste, Rome, Skopje and Ohrid, as well as in Sardinia, alongside the tenor Matteo Desole, and in Tuscany. She has taken part in events and festivals such as the Skopje Summer Festival, Sounds of the Bazaar and Jeunesses Musicales Macedonia. She has collaborated with the Macedonian Philharmonic, performing arias by George Frideric Handel, and with the Bulgarian Youth Orchestra, with which she performed Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt under the direction of Maestro Christo Christov. She has also given recitals in a variety of settings, including the Concerti del Tempietto festival in Rome, in which she has participated on two occasions, and two recitals in the historic Church of St. Sophia in Ohrid. In opera, she made her debut in the role of Dido in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro Verdi in Muggia in 2023. In 2024 she took part in the world premiere of the opera L’Oro del Diavolo by Marco Podda, singing the role of La Mugnaia (the Miller’s Wife) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. In 2026 she also performed the role of the Queen of the Night in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, as part of the Opera Studio of the National Theatre in Belgrade, directed by Pavle Mario Del Monaco. Her repertoire includes roles such as Donna Anna, Konstanze, the Countess, the Queen of the Night, Pamina and Ilia; Lucia, Elvira, Ophélie, Juliette, Thaïs, Manon, Violetta Valéry and Nannetta; Cunegonde and Anne Trulove, as well as Musetta and Liù, among others. She has won first and second prizes at international competitions, including the Lazar Jovanović Competition, the Balkan Romance Song Festival and Polyhymnia, as well as awards and recognitions at competitions such as Art-In Macedonia, Neapolitan Masters and Città di Belluno. She was also a semifinalist at the SOI – Scuola dell’Opera Italiana Fiorenza Cedolins Competition and at the Toti Dal Monte International Competition.

In 2025, at the “Città di Alcamo” International Sicilian Competition, she was awarded the Youngest Finalist prize and a special prize with the opportunity to debut within the Luglio Musicale Trapanese.

In June 2026, she was one of the finalists of the first edition of the International Milka Trnina Singing Competition. Her voice and repertoire encompass a broad range of the operatic repertoire, from Mozart and bel canto to the lyric and verismo repertoire, with particular focus on coloratura and lyric-coloratura soprano roles. Her command of Macedonian, Italian, English, Serbo-Croatian and Russian, together with solid training in diction and sung pronunciation in German, French and Russian, enables her to approach operatic repertoire in different languages and stylistic traditions with confidence