Milena Stanković earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, under professor Mirko Isaeski. She was a winner of many first and special awards in both national and international competitions.

Milena additionally specialized in performing by working with world – class bassoon artists such as: Volker Tessmann, Richard Galler, Henrik Rabien, Tomáš Františ, CarloColombo, Marc Engelhart, Fredrik Ekdahl, GiorgioMandolesi and Nikolaus Maler.

She was awarded with Dositeja stipend for the beststudents in Serbia for both bachelor’s and masters’ degreestudents.  

As a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician, Milena has performed all around the country of Serbia, as well as at a number of festivals and concerts in Germany, Austria, Norway and France. She was holding a job of an associatemember of the Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra. 

In her accomplished concert career, Milena activelyperforms with orchestras, such as: Belgrade PhilharmonicOrchestra, RTS Symphony Orchestra, Opera & TheatreMadlenianum’s Orchestra, Montenegrin Symphony Orchestra, Niš Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of the NationalTheatre in Belgrade and Macedonian Philharmonic.

With Niš Symphony Orchestra, she performed as a soloist three times.

Milena’s performance of Hummel’s Bassoon Concerto was featured in a CD publication of “Revija KlasičneMuzike” of Muzika Klasika. 

Milena was a jury member at the Serbian national competition in bassoon categories and a jury of many international competitions as well. 

Since 2017, Milena works as a bassoon professor at the Music School Stanković in Belgrade. Her students are very successful, and more than often win awards in national and international competitions. She worked also as a bassoon professor at the Music School Petar Konjović in Belgrade and since 2023 she works as a bassoon professor at the Music School Vatroslav Lisinski as well.