Martina Jembrišak

Martina (1995) is Croatian accordionist and bandoneonist recognised for her „ precision, devotion to details, great musical personality and sense of musical expression" (Cantus). 

She was awarded with the prize Ivo Vuljević for the best Croatian musician of the year 2020, and has won more than 30 first prizes on international and national competitions. 

Martina has appeared in recitals at the Opera House Dushanbe, Yamaha Concet Hall in Vienna, Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, Croatian National Theatre in Split, Croatian National Theatre in Šibenik, Concert Hall of Kaunas State Philharmonic, Concert hall of  Radio Television Slovenia, Oekolampad in Basel, Kiev Composers Society Concert Hall, Routh Hall in Bromsgrove, Croatian Institute of History Golden Hall, Matica Hrvatska, Museum Mimara, Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Concert Hall Ivana Brlić - Mažuranić in Slavonski Brod, Place Dverce, Diokletian's Palace in Split, Palace of Croatian Defenders in Pula, Cultural centres in Banja Luka, Izola, Niš, Erbezzo and Trieste and concert halls at the „Mikola Lysenko“ Lviv National Music Academy, „Fryderyk Chopin“ Music University in Warsaw, „Stanisław Moniuszko“ Music academy in Gdansk, and music academies in Bratislava, Vilnius, Zurich, East Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Split and Pula.

She performed with Radio television Slovenia symphony orchestra with Yi Chen Lin and En Shao, Croatian National Television symphony orchestra with Alan Bjelinski, Fryderyk Chopin University Orchestra with Maja Metelska and Anna Galanty and Junge Sinfoniker Basel with Ulrich Dietsche. 

Martina's performances have been featured on Croatian Radio (Od portreta do portreta, Nedjeljni akvarel), Croatian Radio Television (Eurovisian contest of classical music), Slovenian Radio Television (Noč harmonik) and her awards include more than 30 interantional prizes won in Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania.
She has premiered works written especially for her by the composers coming from Europe, Asia, Australia and South America.

She hold presentations for accordion students at Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland and Department of Music at Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University in Lutsk, Ukraine.