Tijana Stanković grew up with traditional songs from the Balkans. She developed taste in harsh, abstract improvisation which shaped her present repertoire. Her key tools – violin and vocal / traditional and contemporary music – are equally incorporated in every band, orchestra or free formation she is involved with.
In addition to that, studies of Ethnomusicology at the Academy of Arts Novi Sad, Serbia broaden her interest in folk music. After attendance of Mezei Szilard’s "Levegő-Vazduh-Air" workshop held at Novi Sad (Serbia) 2011, she started working on free improvisation. Collaborations with musicians, composers and artists: Mezei Szilárd, Márkos Albert, Iancu Dumitrescu, Ana-Maria Avram, Nikolaus Gerszewski, Sőrés Zsolt (Ahad), Ivan Čkonjević, etc. Past and ongoing projects: Argo - rebetiko-free improvisation project based in Budapest; Pjevačka družina Svetlane Spajić - folk music a cappella group; Rođenice – a cappella; playing in Dor – folk-free improvisation band, Hyperion Ensemble (INT); Mezei Szilard’s Improvisers Orchestra, as well as Túl a Tiszán Innen Ensemble and Identity’s Dream Quartet; Nikolaus Gerszewski's Korpovit Trio; duo with Sőrés Zsolt (Ahad), duo with Kutas Reka (cello, Vienna), duo with Luka Toyboy (electronics), duo with Miroslav Toth (composer, saxophonist from Bratislava), duo with Ana Kravanja (violin, Slovenia), duo with Lenhart Tapes (tape music, SRB).
From the year 2002 until 2007 she played in the Subotica based band Paniks, which performed in major festivals all over Europe. In March 2019, she begun working on Radio Beograd 2, as an author on “Od zlata jabuka”, show on folk music. Her solo album "Freezer" was published in 2020 for the Slovakian record label LOM. In 2021 she renew the collaboration with Lenhart Tapes with whom she is working on sophisticated and wild mix of folk tunes and harsh noise, with elements of contemporary classical music and free improvisation. (2022)