Unusually gifted, she saw music and numbers as colours and she was compared to the French child prodigy Ida Presti.

She started playing guitar when she was seven[1] but she also showed a talent for maths and physics which she credited to her synesthesia.

[2] She went on to study with Aleksandar Hadži-Đorđević [sr] at the music high school Vatroslav Lisinski.

She left Serbia to study with Zoran Dukic in the Netherlands at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.

[3] Vlaškalić went on to teach in Groningen at the Prince Claus Conservatoire at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences.