Marija Rašić (1998) is a classical guitarist and lutenist from Belgrade, Serbia, currently based in Rome, Italy. She completed her Bachelor’s degree for guitar in 2020 at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and went on to earn her Master’s degree with highest honors at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2022. Marija is currently pursuing her second Master’s degree, this time in lute performance at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

In recent years, her projects and performances on the guitar have primarily focused on contemporary music. Her debut CD, Guitarization, released in 2023, features five world-premiere recordings of works by Serbian composers. She took part in different workshops dedicated to improvised music and open scores (as SZIM – Szeged Improvisation Workshop 2022, International workshop for improvised music 2022, 2023, 2024 in Senta and Veni Academy 2021 in Banská Bystrica) but has also been curating and organizing her projects aimed at promoting contemporary music. Notable among them are guitARevolution, a multimedia project that merges graphic scores with augmented reality visuals viewed through a camera lens, and the Karika Project, an initiative fostering artistic exchange between performers and composers from Hungary and Serbia. As part of the Belgrade Guitar District, a collective of young professional classical guitarists, she is involved in organizing the concerts and other musical projects.

Besides on the guitar, Marija is actively performing on the lute as soloist and part of few ensembles. Among the recent concerts, the following stand out: the Re-Patched Tour 2024 (as part of an ensemble performing open scores and partially improvised music) in Banská Bystrica (Bábkové divadlo na Rázcestí), Bratislava (Slovak National Gallery), Budapest (Három Holló / Drei Raben), Prague (Alternativa Festival, Atrium Žižkov), Novi Sad (Eđšeg), and Belgrade (Art Get Gallery); a series of solo performances with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra 2022 in Budapest (Solti Hall), Szeged (Korzó Zeneház), and Kanjiža (The House of Arts); solo lute recitals in Bucharest 2025 (Mogoșoaia Palace and Dalles Hall); as well as solo recitals in Serbia 2024 — at the Theatre Museum (Zaječar) and in the Cultural Center Kovačica.
During her education, she won more than 40 awards at national and international competitions and improved her skills through masterclasses with some of the most prominent guitarists of today. She is the recipient of several national and international scholarships.

Marija has been teaching since 2016 at various private and public schools, including full-time positions as a guitar and chamber music teacher at the Davorin Jenko primary and secondary music school in Belgrade, as well as a part-time role at the Budapest British International School.