Lana Trotovšek (born 1983) is a Slovenian violinist and member of The Greenwich Trio.
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Lana Trotovšek was born in 1983 to a family of gifted musicians in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She started to play the violin when she was five and soon showed her great talent, sense for beautiful sound and phrasing.
She first studied with Primož Novšak and Volodja Balzalorsky at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, and later on was discovered by Ruggiero Ricci, who invited her to study with him in Salzburg (Mozarteum).[1] During her studies at Trinity College of Music in London, she studied with Vasko Vassilev, Boris Brovtsyn, Rivka Golani, and Itzhak Rashkovsky at the Royal College of Music in London.[1]
She has also been guided by Ivry Gitlis, Ruggiero Ricci, Ida Haendel, Pierre Amoyal, Gyorgy Pauk, Tasmin Little, Pavel Berman, Lev Guelbard, Rudolf Gahler, Igor Ozim, Bernard Greenhouse and Menahem Pressler.
She is regularly performing as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra,RTS Symphony Orchestra (Belgrade), the Hungarian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Four Seasons from Moscow, Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of SGBS (School of performing arts and music in Ljubljana), Baroque Ensemble Vox Aurae from Italy and the String Ensemble of TCM in London. She gave recitals and appeared as a soloist in Teatro la Fenice Venice, Mozarteum Salzburg, Vienna Konzerthaus, St. John's Smiths Square, St. Martin In the Fields and elsewhere in major venues in the Continent.
Lana is a member of the famous The Greenwich Trio together with a Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser and Japanese pianist Yoko Misumi. The trio joined forces in August 2006.
Since 2011 Lana has joined the Badke Quartet as a first violinist.
Lana is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, both in her native country and the United Kingdom, from which is worth mentioning the New York Friends of TCM Prize and the Solo String Bach Competition. She won the First Prize of "Dino Ciani" International Music Competition for Soloists 2008 in Italy. In Slovenia she is the recipient of the highest award for arts of all universities in the country, the Prešernova Nagrada, a distinction to be awarded only on very few occasions.