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graduated with honors in piano, chamber music, and accompaniment from the P.I. Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow. She also completed her postgraduate studies at the same institution under the guidance of renowned professors (Prof. L. N. Naumov, V. Viardo, and A. Diev). She is a prize-winner of numerous national and international competitions. As a soloist and in chamber ensembles with prominent artists and groups from various countries (Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Vladimir Viardo (piano), Vasilij Melnikov (violin), Oleg Bugaev (cello), Žiga Brank (violin), Elvira Hasanagić (soprano), Marko Hatlak (accordion), Petra Kovačič (violin), Sanja Repše (cello), Nika Gorič (soprano), Nadežda Tokareva (violin), Nicole Pressler (flute), Renata Penezić (flute), and many others), she has performed in prestigious concert halls as part of festivals and concert series throughout Slovenia and abroad. In 2025, her solo album titled Resonance was released by ZKP RTV Slovenija. In 2011, she released a CD with Russian cellist Oleg Bugaev, Chopin-Dialogi (RTV Slovenija in collaboration with MKD Soglasje). She has also translated the books Liszt: The Teacher by A. Boissier and Why Beethoven Threw the Stew by S. Isserlis (MKD Soglasje). She teaches piano and works as an accompanist at the Tartini Music Atelier in Ljubljana and serves as an artistic associate and accompanist at the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.

studied piano under the world-renowned pianist and pedagogue Konstantin Scherbakov. At the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), following the completion of two master's degrees, she also finished a specialized post-graduate degree in piano performance. She has performed on prestigious stages across Slovenia, Italy, Slovakia, France, and Switzerland. With the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, she performed Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra twice, for which she was awarded the Prešeren Award of the Academy of Music. As a soloist, she has collaborated with: the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic (Jenaer Philharmonie), the Alumni Symphony Orchestra, the Mitteleuropa Symphony Orchestra, the Salonorchester St. Moritz. She has won numerous first prizes at the TEMSIG (Slovenian Music Competition for Youth) and various international competitions throughout Europe. Currently, Meta Fajdiga serves as an assistant at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana and is active as both a soloist and a chamber musician. She is a member of the Trio Mna3, alongside violinist Matjaž Bogataj and cellist Maruša Turjak Bogataj.

was born in Sarajevo, where she began her musical studies. She graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under the guidance of Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak. She completed her postgraduate specialization in Paris at the École Nationale de Musique de Fresnes with Professor Igor Lazko. For one year, she furthered her studies at the "Benedetto Marcello" Conservatory in Venice with Prof. Isabelle Lo Porto. She has performed at numerous festivals (Sounds of Youth at the Union, Youth to the Youth, Summer in Old Ljubljana, Summer in Izola, Society of Friends of Music, Sorgo Workshop, Ploče Summer, The Gardens of St. Francis...) both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. In 2009, in a duo with flutist Samanta Stell, she won first prize at the "Istra Nobilissima" competition. She has made several recordings for Radio Koper and the ARS program of RTV Slovenia. She regularly participates in masterclasses led by renowned pianists (R. Dalibaltayan, L. Pogorelić, Isabella Lo Porto, Maria Joao Pires, I. Lazko, A. Valdma...). Since 2003, she has worked as a piano professor and accompanist at the Koper Music School (Glasbena šola Koper). In these roles, she has won numerous awards and has been repeatedly recognized as the Best Piano Accompanist at national competitions.