Born in 1982 in Croatia. Her musical journey began in an unconventional way. Growing up in the war-torn city ,this self thought singer, learned music and jazz by listening to Chet Baker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tom Jobim, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday.
Without a day of music school, she has become one of the most admired jazz singers in Croatia and abroad. She has performed in over 3000 concerts so far and has collaborated with Jaarmo Saari, Aaron Goldberg, Mikael Jacobsson, Gilad Hekselman, Marcus Gilmore, Julian Shore, Brian Girley, Kruno Levacic, Luka Zuzic, Eddie Luis, The Jewsers, Detour, and many others.
Some of the festivals and projects featured include: Liburnia jazz festival, Samobor jazz festival, The Nightingale theater, Musical Day of Love and Ivana Rock fairytale directed by of Vladimir Stefancic, Le Petit Festival du Theater, Runjiceve veeri, Cabaret Lilibelle jazz the international jazz festival in Hong Kong, the OCT loft Jazz Festival in Shenzhen, the Safed International Music Festival (Israel), Beishan World Music and Jazz Festival, the Macau Literary Festival-Script Road, the Novigrad Summer Jazz Evenings, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, , Jazzarella jazz festival, at the concert series “All Souls at Sundown, New York.
With her sextet, she released the album “Runjic in Blue”, which was declared as one of the most modern jazz vocal albums ever recorded in Croatia, and in 2014 she was awarded the highest Croatian Grammy award “Porin” for the best jazz performance of the year.
In May 2014, participated as the first Croatian artist in the prestigious concert cycle “All Souls At Sundown” in the unitary church in Manhattan, New York, accompanied by renowned jazz pianist Aaron Goldberg.
In April 2015, recorded a new album in New York “Tales of the quiet lands and other stories” in collaboration with: Brian Girley, Julian Shore, Gilad Hekselman, Shin Sakaino and Kolja Gjoni.
On April 6, 2016, she performed as a headliner with a concert “Ines Trickovic & Friends” in the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York where she performed with some of the most renowned jazz musicians of today, as the legendary jazz drummer Marcus Gilmore and guitarists Gilad Hekselman.
Since 2011, she has represented Croatia at festivals throughout Southeast China, Hong Kong and Macau (Hong Kong International Jazz Festival, Shenzhen OCT Loft Jazz Festival, Beishan Jazz & World Music Festival Macau Script Road Festival etc), and made an impressive career there, becoming a full-time guest lecturer at CMI MUSIC INSTITUTE, a jazz academy in Zhuhai, CHINA, since 2016.
In 2018, she launched the project “Homage to Erik Satie”, a combination of classical music and jazz. Taking Erik Satie’s instrumental compositions for piano from the opus of Gnossienne and Gymnopedie .Ines herself wrote all the lyrics to Satie’s music, so in this project she has a double role, author and performer. In the project she gathers the best of Croatian jazz and classical music scene – violinist Goran Končar, pianist Hrvoje Galler, and double bass player Zvonimir Šestak.
In 2019 she premiered the world premiere of “Homage to Erik Satie Symphony” accompanied by Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra in the Rector’s Palace. It was a double world premiere, and for the first time in history Gnossienne’s opus was orchestrated and sung with the lyrics of Ines Tričković and arrangements by Petros Klampanis, with a jazz approach.
She lives and works on the Macau-Hong Kong-New York-Dubrovnik route.
Ines Tričković is a very successful jazz singer with a very important international career. She performed not only with some of the most important jazz musicians in Asia, but also in the United States of America. We are proud of her here in Croatia.
Ivo Josipović (former president of Croatia and composer)
Ines has an unusual musical path for today’s occasions, which may remind us of former American jazz greats, mostly self-taught, and even growing up in the bombed and destroyed city, where at that time she was learning by listening to jazz singer Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald and jazz instrumentalists Chet Baker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, who, thanks to their expressive voice and sense of jazz interpretation without a single day of music school, became one of today’s most prestigious Croatian jazz singers.
Mladen Mazur jazz publicist, historian, and music critic
You can never ignore her warm and enchanting voice. This eclectic genius has never had traditional music education but relies on its own strength. Today, Ines is considered one of the greatest jazz singers. She is far more than just a talented singer and songwriter, swimming in many different styles like cabaret, comedy, jazz and theater.
Beishan International Jazz Music Festival
Ines is a born singer and band leader. You can feel her strong instinct and music in the first minutes of her performance. When you hear it, you do not doubt that she is unique.
Zoran Stajčić, music critic. Zagreb 2013.
Ines Trickovic is full of personality and multidimensional charm. She is a warm and dramatic performer, with love for jazz classics and Brazilian music.
Aaron Goldberg