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Piano duets have always been exciting to Sandra and she finds a great joy in playing with partners. As a member of piano duo with her colleague Snezana Stankovic, she participated at national and international competitions and won prizes in Belgrade and Nis/Serbia, Rome and Ostuni/Italy.  Later, she played with several different partners and performed  on different stages from Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade to Budapest Jazz Club.  

Serbian Newspapers 'Danas' about Recital in February 2015

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Sunday, September 13th 2015

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Wertheim Performing Arts Center,

Recital Hall

Performing with pianist Marta Brankovich

Solo compositions that Sandra loves to perform includes Slavic composers literature - Rachmanninof, Scriabin, Mokranjac and romantic literature - Schubert, Schumann and Liszt.   

Apart from this she also enjoys playing popular musical genres - pop, rock, jazz, ambiental music and she has been performing in different settings and for different occasions and events for more than 20 years.

Sandra was born in Belgrade, Serbia where she began playing piano at the age of six.  After she graduated from Belgrade Music High School Mokranjac with the award for the best student of Piano Department, she enrolled in Faculty of Music at the top of her generation at the age of 17. As a student, she was active both as a soloist, and as a member of piano duo, won national and international prizes and performed throughout region. She was involved in major music festivals and manifestations, summer music and media camps.
Further, she obtained her  Master of Music Diploma from the University of Belgrade with the highest GPA. She continued to perform as a soloist, had solo recitals throughout Belgrade and Serbia and recorded for radio and television. 
For her achievements as a student she received several awards and scholarships from the Ministry of Education and other government foundations in Serbia, as well as from international organizations and foundations.​
As a scholarship winner of Rachel Jackoff Foundation, she enrolled in her second graduate program at Longy School of Music in Cambridge, USA where she obtained Graduate Performance Diploma. During this time she was, as much as on solo repertoire and performance, focused on piano pedagogy, intense work within different chamber ensembles and accompaniment.
Her principal piano teachers included Nikola Rackov, Srdjan Grbić and Eda Mazo Shlyam.  Apart from them she worked with and performed for Igor Kipnis, Victor Rosenbaum, Robert Merfeld, Sally Pinkas. 

Sunday, June 5th 2016

Kolarac Concert Hall, Belgrade, Serbia

At the end of 2014 she started her collaboration with Marta Brankovich, concert pianist residing in Miami Beach

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They have performed in concert halls in Miami and Belgrade since February 2015.