Zorana Belušević was born in Podgorica (Montenegro) in 1994. She began studying the flute in 2006 at the Valjevo Music School (Serbia) under the guidance of Aleksandar Burkert, and in 2009 she was admitted to the Higher School of Music to study with the same teacher. She later enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) in Laura Levai Aksin’s class. On June 12, 2020, she earned her master’s degree (two-year specialized program) from the “G. Tartini” Conservatory of Music in Trieste, in Luisa Sello’s class.

During her studies, she participated in numerous international competitions, winning major awards: at the “Davorin Jenko” International Competition in Belgrade, she won third prize (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016); at the “Tahir Kulenović” Flutists’ Festival, she won first prize (2013, 2015) and second prize (2009, 2010, 2011); at the “Femus” International Competition in Subotica, she won second prize (2012, 2013); at the “Val Tidone” International Competition in Italy, she won first prize (2015) and third prize (2016); at the Republic Competition in Belgrade, she won third prize (2009); finally, at the “Guido Novello” Competition in Trieste in 2019, she won third prize. She also participated in the “Young Virtuosos” International Competition in Bulgaria.

Throughout his career, he has been a member of various musical ensembles, including a woodwind quintet, a flute quintet, a flute-and-guitar duo, a flute-and-piano duo, a trio with two flutes and piano, and an ensemble featuring voice, flute, and piano. With the trio consisting of two flutes and piano, she won first prize at the “Val Tidone” International Competition in Italy. In recognition of her academic achievements, the Academy of the Arts honored her as the top student for the 2015–2016 academic year. In 2018, she passed the orchestra audition at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza.

He has given numerous concerts in Croatia (Pula, Zagreb), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Italy. Among his notable performances are: a guitar-and-flute duo concert on May 18, 2017, at the Lega Navale in Trieste, organized by “Chamber Music” Trieste; a concert for Mittelfest 2018 in Cividale del Friuli; participation in a concert with the largest flute ensemble (“2,000 Flutes – 2,000 Sails”) for the Trieste Flute Association; and a solo concert at the Museum of Modern Art in Serbia on December 28, 2018.

She has attended seminars and masterclasses with internationally renowned flutists and musicians, working with Guoliang Han (China), Dejan Gavrić (Germany), Derek Jones (Australia), Peter-Lukas Graf (Switzerland), Laura Levai Aksin (Serbia), Matej Zupan (Slovenia), Bülent Evcil (Turkey), Sarah Louvion (France), Maria Grazia Bellocchio (Italy), Marco Schiavon (chamber music masterclass), Horacio Parravicini (Spain), Mario Caroli (Italy), Carlo Jans (Luxembourg), Jean-Claude Gérard (France), and Gareth McLearnon (United Kingdom). She also took part in the Flautissimo Flute Festival in Rome in 2018 and the Forum for Flute and Piano in Luxembourg in 2019.