Katarina Zvonar

Katarina Zvonar was born in 2000 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and received her first flute instruction at the Grosuplje Music School, before later studying at the Conservatory of Music and Ballet in Ljubljana. Since 2019, she has studyied at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Prof. Walter Auer (flute) and Renate Linortner (piccolo).

She is a multiple award winner of national and international competitions such as the first prize and gold prize at the international competition Giovani Musicisti in Treviso, Italy, a special prize at the Temsig Competition in Slovenia as well as two gold prizes and a special prize at the international competition for soloists and chamber music ensembles, Svirel. She has been a finalist at the Tampere Flute Fest and appeared as a soloist with the Grosuplje Wind Orchestra and the Zagorje Flute Orchestra, as well as in concerts with the Slovenian Philharmonic in Ljubljana.

Katarina Zvonar has gathered valuable artistic inspiration at master classes with internationally prominent flutists such as Barthold Kuijken, Felix Renggli, Mario Caroli, Denis Bouriakov, Philippe Bernold, Andrea Oliva and Gaby Pas-Van Riet.

She has also gained orchestral experience as a substitute at the Vienna Volksoper, in productions with the Bühne Baden, the Austrian Nibelungen Philharmonic and the Orchestra Academy Toblach, as well as in projects with Synchron Stage Vienna and diverse orchestral productions of the mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2025, she was accepted into the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic.