Monica Melcova received her first musical education at the age of five in Slovakia, where she was born in 1974. After her studies of piano and organ at the conservatory in Kosice, she went on to study at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Hans Haselböck and Michael Radulescu and received her „Magister Artium“ with highest distinction and a prize of honor by the Austrian federal government. She was then admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris for post gradual courses to perfect her organ playing with Olivier Latry and Michel Bouvard. She received grants from the Foundation Meyer and the Mécénat Musical Société Générale. The Nadia et Lili Boulanger Foundation supported her studies of improvisation with Loic Mallie at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon.

Monica has successfully participated in numerous competitions: she received the Diplôme d’honneur at the Festival in Bruges in 1997, the Audience’s Price in the Festival in Zilina in 1997 and the Special Price of the Unesco in Lisbon in the year 2000. She has made recordings with the Austrian Radio in Vienna, La Radio de la Suisse Romande, France Musique, RTBF Bruxelles etc.

In 2002 she was appointed organist of the KERN organ at the Kitara Hall in Sapporo, where she performed and taught master-classes for a year. Since then, she has returned to Japan several times to take part in projects organized by the Kitara Concert Hall and the Alliance Française in Osaka and Sapporo. She has also continued to teach master-classes for the organ academy of Hokkaido. In Europe, concert tours take her to the prime examples of her instrument: she has played in Notre Dame de Paris, La Madeleine, The Cathedral of Lisbon and the Royal Chapel at Granada.

At the Levoca Festival, Monica joins with the French flautist Olivier Benichou, in a programme of works by the Bach family and Scarlatti, at the Church of St. Jan in Veľka, Poprad.