Maša Filipović was born on December 6, 2001, in Novi Sad, Serbia. She began playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of Professor Tamara Adamov Petijević. At the age of twelve, she started playing the viola in the class of Professor Igor Josifoski at the “Isidor Bajić” Music School in Novi Sad, where she completed her primary and secondary music education. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Academy of Arts at the University of Novi Sad, in the class of Professor Dušica Polovina, and is currently a master’s student at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, under the mentorship of Professor Panta Veličković.
Throughout her education, she has won numerous awards, special prizes, and laureate titles at national and international competitions, including the title of Laureate at the international festival “Mokranjac”, the first prize and the title of Laureate at the “Stringfest” International Competition in Sremska Mitrovica, and the first prize and special award for performing the Concert Piece for viola and piano by G. Enescu at international competition “Artisti dell’arco”.
She is actively involved in chamber music through various ensembles (string quartet, piano quartet, clarinet quintet, etc.), performing in Serbia and abroad. She has played in many youth and, in recent years, professional symphonic and chamber orchestras: the Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Novi Sad, the Zrenjanin Philharmonic, the Zrenjanin Chamber Orchestra, and the orchestra of the Opera of the Serbian National Theatre. A significant orchestral experience includes her participation in the orchestra residency with the Opera of the Serbian National Theatre as part of the international project Sounds of Change during the first half of the 2023/2024 season.
She attended masterclasses in the fields of viola, chamber music, and early music with renowned artists and educators such as Sorin Spasinović (Romania), Ljubomir Milanović (Serbia), Olga Igorevna Kozurina (Russia), Predrag Gosta (Serbia), Panta Veličković (Serbia), Maja Rome (Slovenia), and Sreten Krstić (Serbia, Germany). She was a scholarship holder at the Stefan Milenković International Institute in 2024, where she attended classes with Stefan Milenković (Serbia), Jožef Bisak (Serbia), and Dmitry Kouzov (Russia, USA).
