The flautist Monika Guca was born in Lower Austria and had lessons in recorder and flute from the age of eight. From 2000 she studied with Professor Gisler-Haase at the Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts and in 2004 embarked on an exchange year with Profesor Greiss-Armin at the Karlsruhe Musikhochschule. She won first prize in the Prima la Musica Competition in 1999, 2001 and 2003, and the Special Prize of Musica Juventutis in 2004. She has a scholarship from the Herbert von Karajan Centre, and since 2003 has been a member of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation’s Live Music Now. In 2000 she founded the Novacella Trio of two flutes and a cello. She has appeared in concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the RadioKulturhaus, and has toured with the Young Vienna Philharmonic.
