Biography

Ana Stanković is an internationally sought-after artist of the alpine horn and French horn, currently residing in Germany, in the Black Forest region, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. In her hometown of Belgrade, after graduating from the Mokranjac Music High School, she completed horn studies at the University of Arts / Faculty of Music in Belgrade, Serbia, in the class of Prof. Milan Radić. Simultaneously, she completed both undergraduate and postgraduate horn studies as a DAAD scholarship recipient at the Bodensee University / State University of Music in Trossingen, Germany, studying with Prof. Francis Orval and Prof. Michael Höltzl, the founder or “father” of the German horn school.

She is the winner of numerous national and international competitions, and was also a scholarship holder at the prestigious international arts school Interlochen in the USA. She has honed her skills in many international youth orchestras and masterclasses with prominent musicians such as Hermann Baumann, Froydis Ree Wekre, Thomas Müller, Herman Jeurissen, Christian Lampert, Norbert Sterz, Wolfgang Gaag, Randall Faust, Lowell Shaw, and Ferenc Tarjani, who enriched her musical education.

She has collaborated with orchestras in Berlin and Bayreuth, Ensemble de Cor in Luxembourg, I Solisti di Perugia in Italy, Camerata in Tübingen, Konstanz and Basel, Calamus Ensemble, the European Philharmonic, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Konstanz, Süddeutsche Camerata, Dresdner Sinfoniker, NDR Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, KlangVerwaltung Munich, and Camerata Salzburg.

Ana has appeared at international festivals in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, the USA, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and beyond. Among them are Kultur im Kloster Alpirsbach, Münstermusik Konstanz, International Festspiele Baden-Württemberg, International Dies Organorum Belgrade, Brigachtaler Kulturherbst, Konzertreihe Sommerkonzerte in Rottweiler Kirchen, SommerNacht Villingen, Konzertreihe Psallite!, Swiss National Day of the Canton of Schaffhausen, Höri Musiktage Bodensee, 28th Baden-Württemberg Children’s & Youth Literature Festival 2023 in Singen, Hamburger Kultursommer, Salzburger Festspiele, and Chiemsee Herreninsel Festspiele.

Alongside her rich concert career, she is also a highly sought-after expert in the field of pedagogy and conducting for brass instruments and wind orchestras, as well as in the alpine horn scene in Germany and Switzerland.

In early 2020, Ana Stanković introduced the, until then, unknown alpine horn for the first time ever in Northern Ireland, in Belfast, at Queen’s University, where she was a guest lecturer and soloist.

In 2021 and 2022, she was a double recipient of the prestigious award presented by the Ministry of Culture of Baden-Württemberg for her work. In 2022, she also received a national-level award for her contribution to culture in the Federal Republic of Germany from the Deutsche Musikrat. Since 2023, she has been appointed as a lecturer for alpine horn at the newly established state-run Musikzentrum Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart.

This versatile artist possesses an extensive repertoire of traditional and contemporary styles for the alpine horn. She presents the alpine horn in a wide range of genres through an unexpectedly soft and delicate yet incredibly powerful and strong sound, and is dedicated to the development of new functional possibilities for the instrument. She enjoys playing with and experimenting with acoustics in any given space.