B I O G R A P H Y
Ana Harp (Brateljević) is a principal harpist of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra with which she had the opportunity to collaborate with world-renowned musicians as Ennio Morricone (over 60 concerts), Andrea Bocelli (recording of the CD Believe and concerts), Vladimir Cosma, Danny Elfman, Jose Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann...
She is also active in teaching - chamber music and harp external pedagogue at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, and harp and piano teacher at Ilji Hurnika Music School in Prague.
After obtaining both Master's degrees in harp and piano in Belgrade, she continued studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under prof. Jana Bouskova, and in 2016 finished Ph.D. studies, specialization in the harp.
Ana is active in several chamber music projects, besides solo recitals on harp and piano, as well as recitals on which she plays both instruments.
Some of the chamber ensembles she is playing in are violin-harp duo Féerie with Milan Berginc (UK) and harp duo with Bronislava Klablenová (Czechia).
With Lucia Košumberská they formed a flute-harp duo, which presented itself in Slovakia and Czechia. Iva Ugrčić, a flutist based in the USA, and Ana Brateljević on the lever harp introduced the Serbian audience to this interesting combination of instruments by performing their own arrangements.
Ana released a CD From Bach to jazz, on which she presents herself as a soloist on harp and piano.
She collaborated on many projects of other genres with electroacoustic harp: CD recording and a remix album of Italian band Sétamùr, POP ART release of the string quartet Arco, collaboration with punk and rock bands. At the Prague Proms Festival, she performed with the jazz trio of Italian guitarist Rocco Zifarelli. Recently she started the collaboration with the Czech bend Dafne.
In January 2020 she performed Concerto de Aranjuez as a soloist with Czech National Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Steven Mercurio in Smetana Hall in Prague.
Ana performs on concert stages all over Europe – Great Britain, Netherlands, Serbia, Czech Republic, Montenegro, and Spain.
