Melina Šišić (Tuzla, May 15, 2003) is a pianist and a graduate student of piano at the Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo, in the class of full professor Višnja Bakalar. She earned her Bachelor of Music Arts degree – Piano as the most successful student of her generation with an average of 9,9, for which she was awarded the recognition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science. Studiosa ingeniosa Universitatis for the best student at the Academy of Music in the overall education and the academic year 2024/2025.

In 2024, she made her debut as a soloist with the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra on the stage of the National Theater in Sarajevo, performing Liszt's Dance of the Dead (Paraphrases on "Dies irae"). At the 2025 New Sound Festival in Sinj, she performed in a concert of contemporary improvisation with saxophonist Ines Vrdoljak; the concert was recorded and broadcast on HRT3.

She gave her first solo concert at the age of fourteen in Tuzla, after which she made numerous appearances in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro. She performed at the National Theater in Sarajevo, the Bosnian Cultural Centers in Sarajevo and Tuzla, the Italian Cultural Center in Belgrade, at the 8th Belgrade Chopin Fest, at the National Theater Tuzla (Festival of Baroque Evenings), at the May Music Festival (Cvjetko Rihtman Concert Hall), in the Crystal Hall of the Rogaška Hotel, HNK Split, the Croatian Home Ivo Tijardović, Diocletian's Palace and the Church of St. Ghost in Kotor.

She is active as a soloist, chamber musician and piano collaborator. She is particularly distinguished by her artistic collaboration in a duo with violinist Lamija Šišić, with whom she has won numerous awards and made media appearances. She is a multiple winner of national and international competitions, with more than forty laureates and first prizes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Poland, France, Serbia and North Macedonia.

She trained with Cyprien Katsaris at the Montenegro International Piano Festival in 2025 and at master workshops with prominent pianists and pedagogues (K. Krasnitsky, K. Krpan, N. Šobajić, Z. Niederdorfer, etc.). She received special awards from pianists Mariam Batsashvili, Marina Horak, Anna Ulaieva and Igor Gryshyn.

She started playing the piano at the age of seven. She completed her primary and secondary music education as a double Student of the Generation, and she graduated from the "Čestmir Mirko Dušek" secondary music school in Tuzla as a gifted student, attending two classes in one school year. As the first-ranked candidate, she enrolled in the Department of Piano, Percussion and Harp at the Academy of Music of the University of Sarajevo (2021/2022). She attended her final year of undergraduate studies as part of the Erasmus+ program at the Academy of Arts, University of Split, in the class of full professor Vesna Podrug-Kossjanenko. During her education, she also studied in the classes of professors A. Medić, R. Dalibaltayana and L. Stanković (FMU Belgrade).

She is the recipient of a scholarship from the "Karim Zaimović" Foundation (2024/2025). She actively participates in interdisciplinary and organizational projects and acts as the secretary and media coordinator of the Matusja Blum International Piano Competition, a member of the Alink-Argerich Foundation. Her first book of poetry Strings It was published in 2025 by the publishing house "Lijepa riječ" Tuzla.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
- SONATA in A major, Wq. 55/4, H. 186
I. Allegro assai
II. Poco Adagio
III. allegro

Šimun-Čarli Botica (1997)
- The Missing Piece (2020)

Maurice Ravel (1875–1935)
- MIRRORS:
no. 5 "La vallée des cloches"
no. 3 "Une barque sur l'océan"
No. 4 "Alborada del gracioso"