SOPRANO

Marija Ticl (Požega, 1997) is a Croatian soprano and music pedagogue. She began her musical journey at the Požega Music School and continued it in Pula and Graz. She graduated in music pedagogy in 2022 and solo singing in 2023 at the Music Academy in Pula in the class of Marija Kuhar Šoš. In 2025, she completed her graduate studies in singing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, in the class of Mardi Byers. During her studies in Graz, she was a scholarship holder of the Steiermärkische Sparkasse bank and the Graz Opera. She has performed in various chamber ensembles and at art festivals in Croatia and abroad: Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Wooden Chapel Festival, Ars Organi Sisciae International Organ Festival, Passion Heritage, Ljubljana Festival (Slovenia), Chopin PianoFEST (Kosovo), Vox Baroque, Albania Guitar Fest (Albania), Belgrade Music Festival (Serbia), Fažana Sunsets, Organ Evenings and others. She has participated in numerous singing competitions and won first and special prizes: International Music Competition Caneres (Vienna), International Singing Competition Stojan Stojanov Gančev (Zagreb – special prize of the Croatian Chamber Orchestra), Sirmium Music Fest (Srijemska Mitrovica – Laureate), International Singing Competition Lav Mirski (Osijek, 2021 and 2022 – special prize of the Osijek-Baranja County), International Music Competition Glasbena čipka (Idrija, Slovenia), Danubia Talents Liszt (Budapest).

Since September 2025, she has been working as a choirmaster of the Cathedral Choir in Požega and works as a music teacher at the Catholic Primary School in Požega.