Paulina Puljek Lord was born in Croatia, where she started her musical education and gained her first performing experiences on the classical guitar and the Croatian folk instrument, the tamburitza, in her hometown of Krapina. After graduating from the historic music school in Varaždin, she continued her education in the United States, and recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree under Professor Adam Holzman at the University of Texas at Austin.
While her playing has been informed in part by years of teaching students of all ages and levels, Paulina’s true love is performance, and she has played for audiences and in competitions around the United States, in Europe, and in Brazil.