Sara Domjanic was born in Vaduz in 1997 and began playing the violin at the age of four. From 2004 she received private lessons from Prof. Herbert Scherz in Zurich. At the age of only 11, she passed the entrance examination to the Berlin University of the Arts and was a young student at the Julius Stern Institute in the class of Prof. Latica Honda-Rosenberg until the age of 15. During her school years she attended the Musikgymnasium in Feldkirch and took violin lessons with Prof. Rudens Turku. From 2016 to 2020, she studied at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin in the class of Prof. Antje Weithaas and graduated there in the summer of 2020 with her Bachelor’s degree with top marks. She is currently continuing her master’s studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich with Prof. Ana Chumachenco.
She attended master classes with Gerhard Mantel, Arbo Valdma, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Thomas Brandis, Coosje Wijzenbeek, Ana Chumachenco and Rudens Turku. Since 2011 she has also been a scholarship holder at the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where she regularly takes part in the intensive weeks.
Sara Domjanic won her first violin competition at the age of five and has since been a multiple first prize winner of the Austrian state and national competition “Prima la Musica”. In 2008 she was awarded the “Podium Prize” in Liechtenstein for her musical talent and won the 1st prize at the “Kiwanis Chamber Music Competition” with the “Trio Ingenium Musicum” in Switzerland. She received further first prizes at the Liechtenstein and Swiss Youth Music Competitions and at the international competition “Etide i Skale” in Croatia. In 2014 she won the national elimination at the international music competition “Eurovision Young Musicians 2014” in Zagreb and played in the final with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne in May 2014.
As a soloist she has already performed with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Belarusian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra Vienna, the Gnessin Orchestra Moscow, the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra, the “Fancy Fiddlers” from Amsterdam, the Varaždin Chamber Orchestra, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Julius Stern Institute Berlin and with the ENSEMBLE ESPERANZA. At the age of only 13, she made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonic.
She has been a guest at numerous festivals, including. Epidaurus Festival in Croatia, Festival in the Sultanate of Oman, Kissinger Sommer, “VP Bank Classic Festival” – formerly FESTIVAL NEXT GENERATION – in Bad Ragaz as well as Festival Kammermusik Bodensee, and gave concerts in the Tonhalle Zurich, in the Gewandhaus Leipzig, in the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich, in the Friedrichspalast in Berlin, in the Centre Culturel in Paris, in the “Knezev Dvor” in Dubrovnik, in the Wischnewskaja Opera House in Moscow, in the Kennedy Center in Washington, in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt as well as in the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In the summer of 2015, the young violinist made her debut at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. In 2016, she made her debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille.
She is also a member of the ENSEMBLES ESPERANZA, which was awarded in 2017 at the “International Classical Music Awards” (ICMA) and in 2018 at “OPUS KLASSIK” (formerly “ECHO KLASSIK”) and consists of scholarship holders of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein.
In the 2017/2018 season, the young violinist gave concerts in Dubai, Moscow, Munich, Novosibirsk, Singapore, St. Petersburg, Washington, Hamburg and Zagreb, among others. In 2018 she was invited as “Artist in Residence” to the FESTIVAL NEXT GENERATION in Bad Ragaz.
Sara Domjanic has so far been supported by the Conny Maeva Charitable Foundation, the Guido Feger Foundation, the Charitable Foundation Music and Youth, the Neue Bank AG Vaduz, the Promotor Foundation, the Hand in Hand Anstalt and the Cultural Foundation Liechtenstein.
She plays on a violin by Stephan von Baehr (model “Antonio Stradivari, Golden Period”, year of manufacture 2014).