Nadja Dornik is regularly asked to play in many music festivals. She has a career as a pianist and harpist, passionately defending the repertoire of composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries who brought many important innovations to classical music, with the special touch on the mysterious and synthetic music of Alexander Scriabin.

Her determination from a very young age leads her to meet audiences around the world. Among the most important venues is the debut at Carnegie Hall in New York with harp and piano when she was only 13 years old, as well as the invitation to play a harp recital at the World Harp Congress in Hong Kong and a piano and harp recital at the Villa Medici in Milan.

Winner of more than thirty international competitions. Nadja performs at a very young age as a soloist with many orchestras: the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Serbian Radio-Television Philharmonic Orchestra, the Paris Conservatory Laureates Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense «Stanislav Binički" and « Pro Classica » (Serbia).

Her performance of the Finale of Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninov at the Festival « Les Arenes Lyrique » was widely praised by critics and was positively mentioned in the magazine « Le Monde ».

Nadja Dornik is a pianist and harpist, graduated from Diploma of Performing Artist, as well as two Masters (piano and harp) at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She finished her bachelor’s and master’s studies in the harp class of Isabelle Moretti, as well as a piano bachelor's studies in the class of Hortense Cartier-Bresson and master’s and Diploma of Performing Artist in the class of Frank Braley.

« Grace and virtuosity

Another promising talent is Serbian pianist and harpist Nadja Dornik, who combines two instruments studied in a double curriculum at the Paris Conservatory. After having accompanied Bellini on the harp, here she is on the piano for the stunning final Alla breve of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3, of which Raphaël Zeitoun apologized for having reduced the lush orchestration to a dozen instruments.

The wires of light bulbs lit between the trees while silhouettes stand out from the windows and terraces of neighboring buildings to listen to streams of music scattered in the coming night.

We are in Paris. It could be anywhere, or nowhere. The audience holds its breath for a Fantaisie-Impromptu, op. 66, by Chopin, played with grace and virtuosity.»

Le Monde

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“Nadja Dornik is an incredible talent, with high musicality, great technic and a wonderful presence on stage!”

Silke Aicchorn

harpist

"Her sound is pure, her touch is delicate and precise, and she is gifted with a truly rare musical intelligence."

Daniele Garella

composer

"Widely applauded by the audience, this performance will remain in memory as a luminous instant. Wonderful musician, Nadja Dornik shows an extraordinary musical maturity for her young age, and a philosophy about music which promises her to a very successful career."

Carole Reuge

Artistic director of the "La Côte Flûte Festival", Switzerland