Jelena Ratkovic received her Diplôme d’Études Musicales (Diploma of Musical Studies) from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental du Val de Bièvre – L’Haÿ les Roses (France) in 2010. Earning B.M and M.M. degrees from the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague under the guidance of Zoran Dukić, Ratkovic has participated in many guitar festivals and has won numerous awards at international competitions, including first prize at the Concours Internationaux de Musique et de Chant in France, second prize in 2007 and first prize in 2009 at the Scharpach Guitar Competition of the Twents Gitaar Festival in Enschede, Netherlands, and first prize in 2009 at the Youth Performer’s Competition of the International Guitar Festival in Rust, Austria.

Her teachers include Leighann Narum, Meliset Abreu, Alice Artzt, Tania Chagnot, Stephen Aron, and Zoran Dukić.