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. Last summer, she was invited to play a piano recital at the Colmar International Festival where she performed a program entirely dedicated to the music of Alexandre Scriabin and Igor Stravinsky. In 2023 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 enchanted the audience with her talent and virtuosity, notably during the performance of Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 3, considered a masterpiece for piano. Her 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 (CNSMDP), where she finished two bachelor’s and master’s degrees, piano in the class of Hortense Cartier-Bresson for the undergraduate studies and in the class of Frank Braley for postgraduate studies and harp in the class of Isabelle Moretti.
Since autumn 2023, she has continued her Diploma of Performer Artist 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 Conservatory in the class of Claire Désert and Michaël Hentz. 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. In 2023 year she also got a scholarship from the École Normale de Musique in Paris which allowed her to continue her Improvement in the piano class of Gaspard Dehaene.
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). She is rewarded for the uniqueness of her musical career by the support of the Foundations L'Or du Rhin, Safran, Meyer and Société Générale.
The competitions bring her to meet audiences from around the world, from Carnegie Hall and New York to Moscow, London, Geneva or Hong Kong. Nadja collaborates with renowned artists: the conductor Patrick Gallois, the flutist Sébastien Jacot, the 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 during the tour «Un Été en France».
Nadja participates in the Academy of Villecroze (2023, professor Avedis Kouyoumdjian), Ljubljana International Music Festival (2022, professor Epifanio Comis), Saline Royale Academy (2022,2023, professors Rena Shereshevskaya, Jean-Francois Heisser), Masterclass at Chantilly (2023,2024, Professor Olivier Cazal). Nadja is an exceptional artist who continues to impress with her passion and talent.
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