Nina Šenk

In 2004, while still studying at the University of Ljubljana, she won first prize at the Young Euro Classic Festival in Berlin for her Violin Concerto No.

In 2008, she earned a master's degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich where her professor was Matthias Pintscher.

[1] After winning the Young Euro Classic prize in 2004, she was awarded the chamber music prize at the 2008 Weimar Spring Festival for Contemporary Music (Weimarer Frühlingstage) with her "Movimento fluido".

From 2008 to 2010, she was composer in residence at the State Theatre in Cottbus, Germany, where she wrote her Second Violin Concerto.

[4] Šenk was elected to the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2019 as its youngest member and first female musician.