MARIJA DINOV VASIĆ, MA (1980), finished her bachelor studies of Piano at the Faculty of Arts in Niš, in the class of prof. Dragoslav Aćimović (2003) and obtained her MA degree in 2006 at the National Music Academy Pančo Vladigerov in Sofia, in the class of prof. Geni Zaharieva. During her education, she actively performed at the concerts, competitions and music festivals. She has won several awards in the country and abroad (Italy, France), as a soloist and a chamber musician, and has performed as a soloist with the Niš Symphony Orchestra. She has attended the courses and workshops with the renowned pianists and pedagogues: N. Lj. Starkman, M. L. Petrović and Geni Zaharieva. During her studies, she has performed at the representative concerts of the Faculty as a soloist and a chamber musician. She has demonstrated the affinity for the theoretical disciplines through the research work on the history of pianism, a kind of lectures in which her observations are illustrated by the performance of the shorter segments or entire compositions, dealing with the redaction of piano literature, writing of piano excerpts of the orchestral scores and translating of music literature. She speaks English and Bulgarian, uses Italian. She has been awarded with scholarships and the fund prizes, and she is the owner of the Diploma of the University of Niš – for the best graduate student of the Faculty of Arts for the school year 2002/03. Since 2005, she has been the Assistant at the Department of Piano. She has performed in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Germany as a soloist, a chamber musician and the accompanist.