Maja Backovic

My name is Maja Backovic and I was born in Serbia. I started playing the violin at the age of 7 at the ''School for Musically Gifted Children" in Ćuprija, Serbia, a boarding school specializing in bowed instruments. Later on, I studied music and the violin at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria, with Lukas Hagen and Rainer Schmidt. After finishing my studies and after almost 10 years of exposure to high-class classical music education and international music and dance improvisation, developing writing and songwriting skills along the way, I started traveling. Three years ago, thinking I was leaving for just a short spontaneous getaway from the surreal situation of the repeated lockdowns, my nomadic life and a life of learning traditional music and instruments from different places I was visiting started.