Minka Popović was born in Belgrade in 1988. She received top honors at the University of Music in Belgrade, after which she began her studies at the "Universität Mozarteum", Salzburg, with Prof. Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch (2008). In 2012 she completed her bachelor's degree and in 2016 her master's degree (concert subject) in the same class. She also studied in the class of Prof. Eldar Nebolsin (Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin).
Her pianistic career is crowned by an impressive number of competition prizes, including several first prizes at national and international piano competitions: First Prize at the Chopin Competition in Rome (2005), Second Prize at Athens International Piano Competition (Greece, 2006), Second Prize at the "Villa de Capdepera" (international competition, Spain, 2006), Special First Prize at the "Banjaluka Biennale" (Bosnia, 2008), Third Prize at the "XXI Ramon Lull Rotary Club Piano Competition" (Spain, 2014), Special Prize of the Royal Family of Serbia Karadjordjevic for "extraordinary achievements", etc. In 2010 she won a selection for a Mozart concerto (KV 453) with the Mozarteum University Symphony Orchestra. In 2011 she performed in the 'Philharmonic Salon' of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and repeated her great success there in a similar project in February 2013. She is a winner of the 'Young Artist of the Year' award from the Serbian Tonkünstler-Bundesverband (2013).
She has performed numerous concerts in Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Spain, Greece, Germany and Austria. In addition to performing as a soloist, she is enthusiastic about chamber music in various ensemble formations, currently primarily with her trio "Susak" (special prize at the Braunschweig International Competition 2013) and the flutist Marko Zupan (SLO).
She has collaborated on various projects with soloists from the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg. She has performed several recitals with tenor Alexander Hüttner (Landestheater Salzburg, BachWerkVokal Salzburg) and soprano Rea Alaburic (Landestheater Salzburg). Minka also worked for a year during her studies as accompanist for the saxophone class at the Mozarteum University (Prof. Peter Gasteiger) and for years as accompanist for the flute class (master class) in Kastela/Croatia (Prof. Marko Zupan). From the winter semester 2019/20 she will be a study assistant to Prof. Cordelia Höfer-Teutsch at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.
She is the artistic director of the "Susak Music Festival" ("Susačke glazbene večeri") - an event on the small Croatian island that has been attracting international artists for ten years.
