Tinka Milinović: A Short Biography

Tinka Milinović was born in Sarajevo in 1973, where she received primary music education playing flute. In 1991, she moved to the USA on her own, and in 1992 entered Louisiana College to study Vocal Performance with Dr. Loryn E. Frey. She graduated with honors as Bachelor of Music in 1996, and continued to study voice as a graduate teaching assistant in the School of Music at the University of Louisiana, the class of Margaret Daniel. In 1998 she received her Master of Music degree in Opera/Vocal Performance and Pedagogy. Tinka graduated at the top of her class, both as a scholar and a performer. Additionally, she further trained her voice with the Metropolitan Opera primadonna Martina Arroyo in New York.

She performed a great deal of roles in different operas, musicals, and opera scenes. Apart from these stage roles, Tinka also held solo concerts and has collaborated with Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and Sarajevo Philharmonics. She worked as a private voice teacher, and as a personal assistant to conductor Jonathan Sheffer in New York.

Tinka has competed at the Bosnian national final "Eurosong 2002" with the song "Sve sto imas ti". She further went on to Tallinn 2002 as Maja Tatić's back-vocalist. She successfully records commercials for television and radio. Nowadays, besides being given her own radio contact show “Tinka Show - No Offense” on the biggest Bosnian national radio station (BH Radio 1), and being the host of “TV Bingo Show” on FTV, she also performs as a solo artist with large repertoire of her original, as well as jazz, cabaret, and classical music. She stars as Sylva Varescu, the leading female role, in "The Queen of Czardas" (operetta by Emerich Kalman) at the National Opera in Sarajevo. She is also working on her first commercial solo album. She is an accomplished freelance artist.