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The cellist Lana Kostic was born in 1988 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). After getting her high school diploma, she studied at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Germany, in the cello class of prof. Johannes Krebs and prof. Alexander Baillie, which she graduated in 2014 with honors. As a scholarship holder of the society of Ober-Gerwern, she specialised at the Swiss University of Arts Bern in the class of prof. Conradin Brotbek and gained a master´s degree in Composition and Theory (with specialisation in classical singing) which she successfully completed in 2016.

As a classical cellist she performes as a soloist, with orchestras and in various chamber music ensembles (Zürcher Oper, Theater Bern, Theater Bremen).

She collaborated in various interdisciplinary projects such as in the film "Dvorak who?" (directed by Jan Harlan - executive producer of Stanley Kubrick), in contemporary theatre (Biennale Munich) as well as in concept improvisations with dancers (Lucerne Kunsthalle, Chollerhalle Zug).

In cooperation with Neurology Biel she performed the performance "The Musical EEG" in 2016 and 2017, where she developed techniques for cello and voice and connected to an EEG device that played her brainwaves. This project resulted in her solo project Lakiko, with which she has performed at festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival (CH), Jazzfest Sarajevo (BiH), Musikfest Kyburgiade (CH), Musikfest Goslar - Harz (DE) and Spike Cello Festival Dublin (IRL).

In 2017 she founded the Duo Frida with the pianist Laura Livers (Rock The Docks Festival, Musikfest Bern).

She is a laureate of many international and national competitions, e.g. She has received the special prize of the competition "Rudolf Matz".