Biography

Matea Škarić Janković, was born on August 25, 1978 in Sisak, Croatia, learned to play the flute at the Fran Lhotka music school in Sisak, Croatia. Took the maturity exam at the music school "Vatroslav Lisinski" in Zagreb in the class of Prof. Nives Andrijašević Janković.

In 1996, she enrolled in her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the class of Prof. Wolfgang Schulz, where she passed the diploma exam with excellent success, in order to continue her further studies.

In the academic year 2002/2003 she studied in the class of Prof. Pierre-Yves Artaud at the Conservatoire national supérieure de musique et de danse de Paris.

Since January 2005 she has been a member of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra on the position 2. flute and piccolo.

2010 Master's degree with excellent success at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (class Prof. W. Schulz).

She won first prizes at national competitions in Croatia; during her studies in Vienna, she received a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Center in Vienna and the Thyll Foundation from Switzerland. She was a scholarship holder of the Alban Berg Foundation (Vienna), the University of Music and Performing Arts (Vienna) and the Austrian Ministry of Science and Technology.

She gives solo concerts in Europe, South America, and the USA.

As an orchestral musician, she was a member of the following international youth orchestras: European Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra Japan in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic, International Orchestra Institute Attergau, also in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in Switzerland, in cooperation with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, where she worked personally with Pierre Boulez on the P. Boulez Sonatine.

She performed the Sonatine in a concert as part of the Lucerne Festival, where she was praised by the composer.

With the aforementioned orchestras, she performs under the direction of renowned conductors: Bernard Haitink, Pierre Boulez, Donald C. Runnicles, Edo de Waart, Yutaka Sado.

In addition to her home orchestra, she also works as a substitute with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Volksoper, the Wiener Virtuosen, the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler Orchester, the Symphony Orchestra of Croatian Television, the Croatian Chamber Orchestra and with other chamber orchestras and ensembles.