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Milica Zulus is a classical violinist with Austrian and Serbian roots, born 1999 in Vienna. Just six years young, she started attending the class of Prof. Marina Sorokowa at the University of Music in Vienna (mdw), in the special class for highly gifted children. As the youngest regular student of that year, in 2015 she began studying with Prof. Gerhard Schulz, at the University of Music in Vienna (mdw), where she graduated with highest distinction in 2019. She went on with her studies in Berlin, at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, in the class of Prof. Kolja Blacher, where in 2021 she graduated in bachelor studies (B.Mus.), and 2023. in master studies (M.Mus.). The same year she began with PhD studies at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Belgrade, in the class of Prof. Robert Lakatoš. From 2023 to 2026 she played in the first violins of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2026, she won the audition for the first violins of the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna.

Milica won the 1st Prize at the European Violin Competition Alfredo e Vanda Marcosig in Gorizia, she won six times the 1st Prize at the competition Prima la Musica in Austria, twice on a federal level. In 2013 and 2016 she won the Musica Juventutis competition in Vienna. She won the 3rd Prize at the Hindemith competition in Berlin and the 1st Prize at the Harmonium Online Plus competition in Yerevan (Armenia).

She has been having numerous solistical performances with orchestra in the Wiener Konzerthaus (Mozartsaal, Schubertsaal), in the main hall of the Kolarčeva Zadužbina - accompanied by the RTS Symphony Orchestra, or the Makris Symphony Orchestra, as well as in the Sava Centar - accompanied by the Camerata Serbica, or the Lola Classic, among other orchestras. Solistically, she was part of the festival of the Spivakov-Foundation and played in the Stanislavski Theatre in Moscow, in the Teatro Malibran in Venice, in the Glazbeni zavod in Zagreb, in the Primaciálny palác in Bratislava, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Chopin Festival in the Kartause Gaming (Austria), and held a recital in the Knight’s hall of Križanke (at the Ljubljana festival), as well as a recital in the Hall of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a soloist, she points out her cooperation with conductors like Jack Martin Handler, Aleksandar Pavlović, Juan Pablo Simon, Bojan Suđić, Predrag Gosta, Ljubiša Jovanović and Biljana Radovanović.

Milica's regular chamber music partner is her mother - Nataša Veljković.