Baralić-Materne, Maja graduated and obtained her Master’s degree at the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo at the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology. Since 1983, she has worked in the Classical Music Editorial Office on Radio Sarajevo, and since 1985 in the Music and Entertainment Program on Television Sarajevo. She has worked as an expert associate at the Institute for the Protection of BiH’s Natural and Cultural-historical Heritage since 1994. Since 2001, she has been working as an editor of music shows on BH Radio 1. She has participated in and exhibited at various domestic and international scientific gatherings and symposia related to music and published a number of articles in the daily press and professional journals.