Nada Martinović

Nada Martinović ( sr-Cyrl, Нада Мартиновић, ; born August 11, 1967) is a Serbian and American music educator, conductor and researcher from Cleveland, Ohio."Pokažimo svetu ujedinjenu Srbiju"
Vesti, August 8, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.
Radio Television of Serbia, September 3, 2015. Retrieved: March 10, 2021."Nada Martinović čuvar srpstva u Ohaju"
Naši u svetu, October 31, 2020. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.

Early life and education

Martinović completed primary and secondary education in Šabac, Serbia at the same time primary and secondary music school, named after the composer and conductor Mihailo Vukdragović. She continued her education at the University of Arts in Belgrade Faculty of Music Arts, majoring in Music Pedagogy and obtaining the title of music professor.

Career

After graduating, she returned to Šabac and worked as a professor of piano and solfeggio. A year later, she revived the work of the kindergarten music class, while at the same time, she coached her high school students and won the first place in the competition of the "Muzička omladina" youth organization. During the Yugoslav Wars, in collaboration with four other colleagues, she opened the first private music school in Šabac.

After emigrating to the United States in 1997, Martinović continued her education, receiving a master's degree in music pedagogy and early childhood development from Cleveland State University (2001), and earning a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Kent State University in Kent (2010) by researching the connection between movement, memory and musical cognition. She has presented the results of her scientific work at many conferences, including the International Society for Music Education meetings in Copenhagen and in Porto Alegre and Brasília. She also contributed to the National Children's Study, working on the analysis of the impact of the environmental factors on the health of young children.

Martinović was the owner, publisher, and chief operating officer of The Women's Journal publication. She worked as a partnership expert for the United States Department of Commerce. She is a professor of music at the Kent State University, director of the Cleveland Serbian Film Festival and founder and manager of the nonprofit organization Serbian Heritage Project, which she founded in 2014 in cooperation with the Western Reserve Historical Society to create an archive of the Serbian population in Northeastern Ohio.

Since 2013, Martinović has been representing Serbian community at Cleveland International Community Day at the Cleveland Museum of Art. She is also a founding board member and Serbian representative in the Eastern European Congress of Ohio,"Istočnoevropski glas iz 'ohajskog Mladenovca'"
Radio Television of Serbia, April 26, 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021. board member and past Vice President of the International Community Council – Worldwide Intercultural Network (ICC-WIN), member of Global Cleveland and the Ohio representative of the Tesla Science Foundation from Philadelphia. She teaches music and the Serbian language at the Serbian Sunday school and she is the conductor of St. Sava Children's Choir"Pesmom dočarali modernu Srbiju"
Vesti, November 7, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021. and since 2018 the conductor of the Serbian Men's Choir "Kosovo" from Cleveland as well. In 2019, she was entrusted with the position of coordinator and artistic director in the Serbian Cultural Garden during the One World Day festival. Martinović is the author of numerous exhibitions, lectures and cultural events."Zvon Vrbice u Americi"
Radio Television of Serbia, April 27, 2016. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.

St. Sava Children's Choir

Martinović founded the St. Sava Children's Choir in 2002, with the aim to introduce, practice, and perpetuate Serbian culture, language and tradition. Children from Serbian churches in Cleveland, who are mostly American born, sing in it and learn the language of their ancestors through singing. The choir performed at Kent State University in 2014 and 2016; Cleveland Museum of Art in 2014, 2015 and 2019; Cuyahoga Community College in 2015; and they marked the 70th anniversary of the One World Day festival in 2015 in the Serbian Cultural Garden with an original "Children Musicking" performance. The following year, 2016, the choir recorded its first song "Flowers from Cleveland Garden," which is enriched with a video and became the choir's anthem.

In honor of the 164th anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla