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. Notably the first prizes at the competitions «Suoni d'Arpa» (Italy), «Rencontres Internationales de la Harpe en Île-de-France », Léopold Bellan (France), Prize at the International Harp Competition in Israel for the best interpretation of «Moldau» of Smetana and the first prizes at the International Piano Competition A.Scriabine (France) and International Piano Competition "S.Prokofiev" (Czech Republic).
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).
She has performed at the Festivals « Les Arènes Lyriques » (2023 and 2025), « Festival International de Colmar » (2024), « Festival Chopin » in Paris (2023), Festival International «Musica in Villa», Florence (2013, 2014, 2024, 2025), and Festival « Un Été en France » (2022).
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 collaborates with renowned artists: the conductor Patrick Gallois, the flutist Sébastien Jacot, the cellist Gautier Capuçon, the composer Daniele Garella, with whom she recorded her first album at the age of 15. In September 2025 she records in Florence the second CD of his music.
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. She also perfected her playing in the excellence class of Shani Diluka, supported by the Monegasque government, at the Prince Rainier III Academy of Music in Monaco, as well as in the Perfectionnement class of Gaspard Dehaene at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot".
She is rewarded for the singularity of her musical journey with the support of the foundations L'Or du Rhin, Safran, Meyer and Société Générale.
Nadja participated 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).
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