Nada Martinović ( sr-Cyrl, Нада Мартиновић, ; born August 11, 1967) is a Serbian-American music educator, conductor, and researcher from

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

, Ohio."Srpski cvetovi u klivlendskoj bašti"
Radio Television of Serbia, September 3, 2015. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.

Early life and education

Martinović completed her primary and secondary education at Muzička Škola

Mihailo Vukdragović Mihailo Vukdragović (; November 8, 1900 – March 3, 1967) was a Serbian composer and conductor, Professor at the Belgrade Music Academy (later named Faculty of Music in Belgrade), Rector of the University of Arts in Belgrade and member of t ...

Šabac Šabac ( sr-Cyrl, Шабац, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Mačva District in western Serbia. The traditional centre of the fertile Mačva region, Šabac is located on the right banks of the river ...

. She then attended the Faculty of Music Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade, majoring in

Music Pedagogy Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory ensemble directors. Music education is also a research area in which scholars do origina ...

Career

After graduating, she taught piano and solfeggio in Šabac. During the

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, she co-founded a private music school in the city with four colleagues."Nada Martinović čuvar srpstva u Ohaju"
Naši u svetu, October 31, 2020. Retrieved: March 10, 2021. After immigrating to the

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in 1997,"Pokažimo svetu ujedinjenu Srbiju"
Vesti, August 8, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021. Martinović received a master's degree in Music Education from

Cleveland State University Cleveland State University (CSU) is a public research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1964 and opened for classes in 1965 after acquiring the entirety of Fenn College, a private school that had been in oper ...

in 2001. She earned her

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Kent State University Kent State University (KSU) is a Public university, public research university in Kent, Ohio, United States. The university includes seven regional campuses in Northeast Ohio located in Kent State University at Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Kent State ...

by researching the connection between movement, memory, and musical cognition. She also contributed research to the

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, analyzing the impact of environmental factors on the health of young children. From 2016 to 2018, Martinović was the publisher and

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of the Women's Journals (Summit, Stark and Portage Counties). From 2019 to 2020, she worked as a partnership specialist for the

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. Since 2010, she has been an

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of Music at

and director of the Cleveland Serbian Film Festival''.'' In 2014, she founded the non-profit ''Serbian Heritage Project''. Since 2013, Martinović has represented the Serbian community at the

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. She is a founding board member and the 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. a board member of the International Community Council – Worldwide Intercultural Network (ICC-WIN), and the Ohio representative of the Tesla Science Foundation. Martinović teaches both music and the

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. Since 2018, she has been the conductor of the Serbian Men's Choir in Cleveland. In 2019, she became the coordinator and artistic director of the Serbian Cultural Garden during the One World Day festival.

St. Sava Children's Choir

In 2002, Martinović founded the ''St. Sava Children's Choir'', whose members are drawn from Serbian churches in Cleveland. The children, most of whom are American-born, sing and learn the Serbian language."Pesmom dočarali modernu Srbiju"
Vesti, November 7, 2014. Retrieved: March 10, 2021. The choir has performed at various venues and festivals and recorded one of their songs. In 2020, in honor of the 164th anniversary of the birth of

Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla (;"Tesla"
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and as part of the "Children of Serbia" project, the St. Sava Children's Choir collaborated with Leontina Vukomanović's Choir "Čarolija", Folklore Group "Morava" from Cleveland, and the Serbian School "Nikola Tesla" from

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to record the song and video "The Circuit"."'Strujno kolo' za Teslin rođendan"
Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, July 10, 2020. Retrieved: March 10, 2021.

Bibliography

* ''Parents' and Teachers' Perceptions of the Musical Development of Preschool Children Ages Two Through Four,'' scientific study (

, Cleveland, OH, 2001) * ''The Effect of Movement Instruction on Memorization and Retention of New-Song Material Among First-Grade Students,'' scientific study (

, Kent, OH, 2010)

References

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