Serbian pianist Ana Bursac is a first-class honours graduate of the Royal College of Music, where she was awarded both a full scholarship supported by Sir Simon and Lady Robertson and a Steinway and Sons Award, and where she studied with Professor Dmitri Alexeev, Jianing Kong and Dina Parakhina. Ana gave her first recital at the age of 11 as part of Belgrade Spring Festival and the same year performed Mozart piano concerto as a soloist with the chamber orchestra in Novi Sad, Serbia.

She won prizes at renowned national and international competitions including First and Special Prize at the International Young Pianist Competition in Sabac, Serbia, First Prize at the Serbian State Competition, First Prize at Davorin Jenko International Piano Competition in Belgrade, and Third Prize at the Flame International Piano Competition in Paris.

Having performed extensively across Europe, in Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, France and Serbia, Ana has also appeared in the UK as a soloist at Steinway Hall, Regent Hall, St. James Piccadilly, Auriens Chelsea, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Pallant House Gallery and Pushkin House. In 2018, the same year Ana was invited to perform before HRH Princess Alexandra, she was admitted to the acclaimed International Mendelssohn Academy, Leipzig. She has worked with renowned pianists and pedagogues including Jacques Rouvier, Mikhael Voskresensky, Freddy Kempf, Ian Jones, David Westfall, Yuval Admony, Dorian Leljak, Rita Kinka and Peter Jablonski.

Ana was invited to play a duo recital with Emma Arizza at Villa d’Este at Lake Como in June 2017, as part of the festival Arte e Musica Sul Lario which attracts prominent musicians such as Sir András Schiff, Ivo Pogorelich, and Grigory Sokolov. The duo performed at Sala Carducci at Lake Como and Magazzino Musica in Milan, and across many London venues such as Ashby Manor House, Russian Cultural Centre, St.Stephen’s Church and Shaw Library.

In 2020, Ana was awarded the Help Musicians Postgraduate Performance Award, in 2021 she was a prize winner at Danubia Talents Liszt International Piano Competition and in 2023, Ana was a semi-finalist at the International Piano Competition Val de Travers in Neuchatel, Swtitzerland.

Ana was selected to play at the Bloomsbury Festival in London in October 2023, where she premiered piano music of Serbian contemporary composers.