Ana Krstajić
Composer in residence
Ana Krstajic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She graduated at Faculty of Music Art in Composition and Orchestration (M.M. Serbia) and at Berklee College of Music, Scoring for Film, TV and Video Games department (M.M. Spain)
In 2014 she won 1st Prize at the Young Composer Competition “Women’s Works” (Ithaca, NY). In 2016 she won 2nd Prize at the International Composer Competition “De Bach au Jazz” (Paris, FR) in category Contemporary Piano, same year she won 1st Prize at “The Best Musical Mind” International Music Competition, (Belgrade, SR) which brought her full scholarship for Berklee Summer Performance Program (Valencia, ESP).
She won Honorary Mention at Soundtrack Cologne festival in 2018, in 2021 she won Hollywood Music in Media Award (Los Angeles, CA) in Orchestral category for her piece “Our Land”. Since 2019 she is Cultural Ambassador of Serbia Creates platform. She was selected for Alliance for Women film Composers and Society of Composer’s and Lyricist mentoring session in 2022.
She is currently working on several Film, TV and Theater productions in Serbia, and working as a composer for an Apple TV animated shorts collection, while writing additional music for a Netflix show.
She is currently an Artist in residence at Kolarac Concert Hall in Belgrade.