Biography

Milica Zulus Dimić is a classical violinist with Austrian and Serbian roots, born 1999 in Vienna. Just six years young, she started attending the class of Prof. Marina Sorokowa at the University of Music in Vienna (mdw), in the special class for highly gifted children. As the youngest regular student of that year, in 2015 she began studying with Prof. Gerhard Schulz, at the University of Music in Vienna (mdw), where she graduated with highest distinction in 2019. She went on with her studies in Berlin, at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, in the class of Prof. Kolja Blacher, where in 2021 she graduated in bachelor studies (B.Mus.), and 2023 in master studies (M.Mus.). The same year she began with PhD studies at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Robert Lakatoš. 

She has been taking private lessons with distinguished violinists like Zakhar Bron, Fern Rašković, Arkadi Vinokurov, Vadim Gluzman, Maja Jokanović, Imre Lakatoš, Roman Simović and Tibor Kovac. In 2021 she took part at the International orchestra academy with the Viennese Philharmonics in Attergau (IOIA) and won in 2023 the audition for the first violins of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

She has been having numerous solistic performances with orchestra in the Wiener Konzerthaus (Mozartsaal, Schubertsaal), in the Concert Hall of the Kolarac Endowment and the Sava Center in Belgrade. She played, among other, solistic in the Stanislavski Theatre in Moscow, at a festival of the Spivakov-Foundation, in the Teatro Malibran in Venice, in the Glazbeni zavod in Zagreb, in the Primaciálny palác in Bratislava, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Chopin Festival in the Kartause Gaming (Austria), and in the Knight’s hall of Križanke, at the Ljubljana festival.

As a soloist, she points out her cooperation with conductors like Aleksandar Pavlović, Juan Pablo Simon, Bojan Suđić, Predrag Gosta, Ljubiša Jovanović and Jack Martin Handler.

She has been giving numerous performances with her mother, the pianist Nataša Veljković.

She won the 1st Prize at the European Violin Competition Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig in Gorizia, she won six times the 1st Prize at the competition Prima la Musica in Austria, twice on a federal level. In 2013 and 2016 she won the Musica Juventutis competition in Vienna. She won the 3rd Prize at the Hindemith competition in Berlin and the 1st Prize at the Harmonium Online Plus competition in Yerevan, Armenia.