Gloria Damijan studied piano and music pedagogy at Music University Vienna where she focused on contemporary music and free improvisation.

She has led workshops with with Manon-Lìu Winter, Burkhard Stangl, Franz Hautzinger and Ian Pace. Since 2003 Gloria has been active in the Viennese Free Improvisation-scene with the ensembles ctrl and lsd.

Gloria is a member of the international cooperation-project Improvisation-Orchestra ÖNCZskequist, the duo fesch, and is part art of the Viennese Improvisers-Network snim.