Ivanka Vrhovac, rođena 1972. godine u Kiseljaku, Bosna i Hercegovina. Osnovnu i Srednju muzičku školu završila u Sarajevu kao i Muzičku akademiju u klasi profesorice Svetlane Člaidze. Kao profesor klavira radila je u Osnovnoj muzičkoj školi u Visokom, Osnovnoj glazbenoj školi Jakova Gotovca u Novom Travniku, Osnovnoj muzičkoj školi Travnik. Od 1999. god. radi u Srednjoj Glazbenoj školi Jakova Gotovca Novi Travnik na mjestu prof. klavira, a od 2003. god. obavlja i funkciju ravnateljice škole. Kroz dugogodišnji pedagoški rad učenici iz njene klase sudjelovali su na brojnim natjecanjima i osvojila veliki broj nagrada (specijalna nagrada, prve druge i treće nagrade). Organizirala i sa učenicima sudjelovala na brojnim kulturnim događanjima i koncertima širom BiH. Kao član Udruženja muzičkih pedagoga FBiH bila član žirija na Federalnim natjecanjima u Sarajevu, Zenici, Tuzli, Ilidži, Livnu, Travniku i Brotnju. Usavršavala se na seminarima kod eminentnih klavirskih pedagoga kao što su: Alekdandar Serdar, Konstantin Krasnicki, Višnja Bakalar, Vladimir Milošević, Jokut Mihaljević, Dragomir Bratiću i dr. u Sarajevu, Mostaru, Zenici, Tuzli, Zagrebu i Dubrovniku.
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Ivanka Vrhovac was born in Kiseljak, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1972. After completing her education in the Primary and Secondary Music school, she has successfully continued her professional education as a piano teacher and performer at the Music Academy in Sarajevo, and graduated in the class of professor Svetlana Claidze. She has worked as a piano teacher in the Primary Music School Visoko, Primary Music school Jakova Gotovca Novi Travnik and Primary Music School Travnik. Since 1999. she works as a piano professor in the Secondary Music School Jakova Gotovca, Novi Travnik, whose leadership she will take over by becoming a principal of the same school in 2003. Her vast teaching experience can be seen through many achievements and many first, second or third awards her students earned by participating in many international and state competitions. In addition to competitions, she has been an organiser of many cultural events and concerts throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina, which were again enriched by the participations of her students. As a memeber of the Music Assosiation of Music Educators of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, she was also a jury at the Federal Music Competitions of Bosnia and Herzegovina held in Sarajevo, Zenica, Tuzla, Ilidza, Livno, Travnik and Brotnjo. She attended many music seminars held by many eminent piano pedagogues such as Aleksandar Serdar, Konstatntin Vrasnicki, Višnja Bakalar, Vladimir Milošević, Jokut Mihaljević, Dragomir Bratić in Sarajevo, Mostar, Zenica, Tuzla as well as in Zagreb and Dubrovnik in Croatia.