Ana Kaličanin Radivojević, MA
Ana Kalicanin Radivojevic (Belgrade, 1990) is one of the most prominent flutists of her generation. She completed her bachelor and master studies at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the class of Prof. Lj. Jovanović, where she is currently a doctoral student. She obtained her Magister diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in the class of Prof. B. Gisler-Haase and Prof. W. Auer, and continued her studies at the University of Arts in Graz in the class of Prof. E. Klambauer.
She has won numerous prizes, including First Prizes at the “Anton Eberst” Competition (Serbia), “Ohrid Pearls” (North Macedonia), and “Young Virtuoso” (Bulgaria), as well as Third Prize at the international wind instrument competition “Intermusica” (Austria). She has also participated in many masterclasses with renowned flutists such as Emmanuel Pahud, Kersten McCall, Felix Renggli, Andrea Lieberknecht, Peter-Lukas Graf, Michael Köfler, Michel Debost, and Philippe Bernold.
Her performing career includes appearances with orchestras such as the “Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra” Amsterdam, the Hof Symphony Orchestra, the RTS Symphony Orchestra, and the Webern Symphony Orchestra Vienna, under the baton of conductors Zubin Mehta, Neeme Järvi, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Gimeno, Yutaka Sado, Gabriel Feltz, Stanislav Kochanovsky, and many others.
In 2024, she performed a solo concert and gave a masterclass at the Flute Festival in Qingdao, China, and was a jury member at the international competition “Finalis” in Białystok, Poland. She was a member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra as Second Flute from 2019 to 2021, and as Solo Flute from 2021 to 2024. Since 2024, Ana has been Solo Flute at the “Tonkünstler Orchestra” in Vienna and is a Teaching Assistant to Prof. Ljubiša Jovanović at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, which highlights her active orchestral and pedagogical role.