Vesna Stanković, a violinist born in Belgrade, is a professor of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and concertmaster at the Vienna Volksoper.

She studied violin under Prof. Szymon Goldberg in the USA (at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School). She has received numerous awards both in the former Yugoslavia and in the USA. In 1986, she was a finalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

For fifteen years, she was one of the leading members of the ‘Chamber Orchestra of Europe’, where she collaborated with conductors and soloists such as Harnoncourt, Abbado, Giulini, Solti, Kremer, A. Schiff, Perahia and others.

Vesna Stanković regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician at major concert series and festivals. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras in the USA, Vienna and the former Yugoslavia. For several years, she was the artistic director of the Szymon Goldberg Memorial Chamber Music Seminar in Toyama. She regularly takes part in the Chamber Music Festival in Nuremberg as well as in chamber music series at the Vienna Konzerthaus, where she made her debut in 1995.

Vesna Stanković plays a Jacobus Steiner violin from 1671, from the collection of the Austrian National Bank.