The beginning

Dr. Sanja Petricic has performed her first piano concerto with the orchestra at the age eleven. Her musical journey started when she was seven years old attending the music school for gifted children in ex-Yugoslavia. She started winning national and international competitions at very young age and was invited to participate in several radio and TV talk shows.

During the war in the 90’s her family moved to United Sates where she continued her education at Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School in New York. As a soloist and chamber musician she has performed in United Sates, France, Italy, Finland, Greece, and Serbia including some of the prestigious concert halls as Salle Gavotte in Paris, Alice Tully Hall in New York, and Kolarac Hall in Belgrade.

While studying at The Juilliard School, Dr. Petricic got interested in multimedia performances which led her to become the art manager and performer of the classical music storytelling concerts "Diary of Mr. Rajic” and “Music love story” being performed in New York and Lake Taho festival in California. Along with her colleagues she created an international association of chamber music exchange called “Libera Musica” that included musicians from US, Russia, Izrael, Poland, Italy, Greece, and Serbia.

The turnaround

In 2006 Dr. Petricic suffered from a back injury that prevented her to continue her career as a performer therefore she decided to take another path and become professor of arts management and leadership at Faculty for Media and communication in Belgrade.

However, her passion for music, live performance and arts collaboration was still part of her life so she decided to combine her experience and knowledge to create audience-development project called “Meet the composers” that took place in numerous performance venues for the next 12 years in collaboration with students, artists, local theaters, and cultural centers in Belgarde.