Antonija Jurin Starčević started learning the flute in the classes of Ivančica Ivko and Viktorija Conjar at the Franjo Lučić Art School in Velika Gorica, where she finished elementary music school. She received his high school music education at the Zlatko Baloković School of Music in Zagreb, in Mira Golčić’s class, simultaneously graduating from Gymnasium Velika Gorica. She studied flute at the Academy of Music in Zagreb, in the class of Marina Novak, where she graduated with honors in 2006. She also enrolled in law studies at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, where she obtained her diploma in 2010.

Antonija is the winner of first and second prizes at state competitions and has improved her knoweledge at numerous masterclasses of prominent flautists and pedagogues such as J. Levitzky, P. Y. Artaud, H. Schmeiser, F. Karimi, K. Zenz and K. Levine. Noteworthy are her solo performances on the occasion of the 85th birthday of the renowned Croatian composer Emil Cossetto, her performance at the Croatian Music Institute at the Final Concert of the 50th Anniversary of the Wind Instruments Department of the Music Academy in Zagreb, and the performance in the Youth for Youth cycle. In 2020, she performed at the Beethoven 250 – Piano & Winds concerts in Velika Gorica, Zadar and Zagreb, which marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. A year later, she took part in the first integral performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’ chamber music for piano and winds, on the occasion of 100th anniversary of the composer’s death, at the opening of the first season of the Golden Cycle of the Croatian House concert hall in Split. The concert was repeated in the small Lisinski Hall in Zagreb.