Jovanka Banjac studied piano in Florence with Oratio Frugoni at the Rosary College, Graduate School of Fine Arts. After having graduated in piano at the Conservatory “Luigi Cherubini“ in Florence she moved to Vienna to continue her studies with Dieter Weber at the University for Music in Vienna, where she graduated with distinction in concert piano performing. She obtained her Master degree at the “Mozarteum” Salzburg. Nikolaus Harnoncourt was among others her mentor and certified her thesis on Mozart’s piano sonatas. In 1975 she was also awarded first prize at the Elena Rombro-Stepanow Piano Competition in Vienna. Jovanka Banjac has many years of experience teaching piano at different levels. Since 1995 she has been university lecturer for piano at the Institute for Composition, Music Theory and Electroacoustic at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Jovanka Banjac has written and published various pedagogical works: Notentrainer, Children’s Songs & Finger Dances, and Christmas’ Carols for one piano four hands (Doblinger –Vienna). She performs regularly as a soloist and as a chamber-music partner in a piano duo with Russian pianist Marija Koehler. She has recorded several CDs with works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin, Czerny, Crammer, Tajcevic, Bajic and others. Among others she played as a soloist at the opening of San Lorenzo Festival in Florence and in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.