Svetlana Anatolyevna Krajna graduated in Moscow from the Gnessin State Russian Academy of Music, where she studied tambura–domra in the class of Prof. V. Chunjin. Throughout her education and professional career, she has received numerous awards at competitions dedicated to Russian folk instruments.
From 1984 to 1988, she was a member of the Russian Tambura Orchestra “Bojan” of the Moscow Philharmonic, with which she performed extensively throughout Europe and Asia. Since 1990, she has maintained ongoing collaboration with the Tambura Orchestra of Croatian Radiotelevision under the direction of Maestro Siniša Leopold. Between 1992 and 1994, she served as conductor of the Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra of HGGH “Sloga.”
Since 1995, she has devoted herself professionally to pedagogical work. At the Zlatko Baloković Music School, she initiated and established the first secondary-level music program for tambura in the Republic of Croatia. She is the originator and initiator of the first Competition for Tambura Students – Soloists, at which her students consistently achieve notable and commendable results.
She regularly participates in the development and implementation of new curricula for primary and secondary music schools and serves as a mentor to numerous trainee teachers preparing for their professional examinations.
Since 2019, she has been an artistic associate at the Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek, part of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. In 2022, she performed with the Croatian Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Miran Vaupotić. She is the author and publisher of professional literature for tambura players, produced in collaboration with the Croatian Society of Music and Dance Pedagogues and the Croatian Society of Tambura Pedagogues. In 2021, she was promoted to the professional title of Executive Advisor.