Lana Trotovšek was born in 1983 to a musicians family in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and started to play the violin when she was 4. At the age of 17, she was taken under the auspices of Ruggiero Ricci, who was her mentor for 18 months in Salzburg (Mozarteum) [REF].
She has also been guided by Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Pierre Amoyal, Gyorgy Pauk, Tasmin Little, Pavel Berman, Lev Guelbard, Rudolf Gahler, Igor Ozim, Bernard Greenhouse and Menahem Pressler.