Ana Krstajic (1994) was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She started playing piano when she was 8 years old. She graduated from the Faculty of Music at the Department of Composition and Orchestration (M.M. Serbia) at Berklee College, Department of Music and Film, TV and Video Games (M.M. Spain).
During her studies at Faculty of Music Art she won several prizes. In 2014 she won 1st Prize at the Young Composer Competition “Womens Works” (Ithaca, NY). Following year, she was designated as Alternate at the Renne B. Fisher Composer Competition (New Haven, CT). In 2016 she won 2nd Prize at the International Composer Competition “De Bach au Jazz” (Paris, FR) in category Contemporary Piano, designated as the youngest Laureate. 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, SP).
Ana is composing concert and incidental music. Her music was performed in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Slovenia and USA. She composed music for several Theater plays in Serbia which were premiered in some of the biggest theater houses in the country (Belgrade Drama Theater, Sombor National Theater).
Her first appearance in the international scene of Theater music happened in 2017 when she composed music for Macbeth at Monbijou Theater in Berlin. She worked on several short movies in Serbia such as Herostrat – dir. Marina Uzelac (premiered at “Basta Fest” festival of short films), First Serbs on the Moon – dir. PetarPesut and Lies have Short Legs – dir. OgnjenGotovcevic.
Her Music was broadcasted at the Radio Belgrade 3, Eburg radio station (Washington DC) and Sound Art radio (England).
Besides composing Ana is also performing as a pianist in a world music duo Tashana with her colegue Jana Rancic. Duo Tashana merges traditional Balkan music with contemporary classical sound.
