She is regularly asked to play in many music festivals. Last summer, she had the honour to participate in the prestigious Chopin Festival in Paris, where she performed a piano recital entirely dedicated to Chopin. In addition, Nadja also performed at the "Les Arènes Lyriques" Festival in Paris, where she gave no less than 10 concerts. She enchanted the audience with her talent and virtuosity, notably during the performance of Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3, considered a masterpiece for piano. His performance was widely praised by critics and was mentioned positively in the magazine « Le Monde ».
Nadja Dornik fell in love with music at the age of four. At first, Nadja began to play the piano, but very quickly she was delighted to harp, and in 2016, graduated from the Musical High School «Mokranjac» in Belgrade with two classes at the same time – class of harp and class of piano. All that in just two years as a student of the generation. The same year she was unanimously admitted to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where she finished two bachelor’s and master’s degrees, harp in the class of Isabelle Moretti and piano in the class of Hortense Cartier-Bresson for the undergraduate studies and in the class of Frank Braley for postgraduate studies.
Since autumn 2023, she has been pursuing her Diploma of Performer Artist (DAI) at CNSMDP as a pianist in the class of Frank Braley, as well as a Master of Chamber Music with her trio (piano, violin, cello) at the same Conservatoire in the class of Claire Désert and Michaël Hentz. This year she also got a scholarship from the École Normal de Musique in Paris which allows her to continue her Improvement in the piano class of Gaspard Dehaene and she is also admitted to the piano excellence class of Shani Diluka, supported by the Monegasque government, within the Prince Rainier III Academy of Music.
Winner of more than thirty international competitions, Nadja performs very young with many orchestras: the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, the Serbian Radio/Television Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ministry of Defence Symphony Orchestra «Stanislav Binički» and «Pro Classica» (Serbia).
The competitions bring her to meet the public around the world. From New York to Moscow, London or Geneva, from Carnegie Hall to the World Harp Congress in Hong Kong, she collaborates with renowned artists: flautist Sébastien Jacot, conductor Patrick Gallois, composer Daniele Garella, with whom she recorded her first album at the age of 15. In the summer of 2022, she also had the opportunity to collaborate with Gautier Capuçon. Cellist with whom she shared the stage for the tour «Un Été en France».
For the 2022/2023 school year, she became a laureate of the Safran Foundation and the Meyer Foundation for Music, as well as the ambassador of the Saline Royale Academy. That year she was also one of the pianists selected for a masterclass session with renowned pianist and teacher Olivier Cazal and also for the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, where she had the opportunity to enrich her playing by working with the renowned pianist and teacher Avedis Kouyoumdjian. For the year 2023/2024 she also becomes a laureate of the Fondation d'Or du Rhin for excellence.
This summer she is invited to play a piano recital at the Colmar International Festival where she will perform a program entirely dedicated to the music of Alexandre Scriabine and Igor Stravinsky. Nadja is an exceptional artist who continues to impress with her passion and talent.
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